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Melanie Schaffer

Federal Judge Sets May 2024 Trial Date For Trump’s Classified Documents Case

Former US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he departs Trump Tower in New York on April 13, 2023. - Trump is to be deposed Thursday in a $250 million lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging that Trump and his children fraudulently overvalued the former president's assets by billions of dollars. PHOTO BY ANGELA WEISS/GETTY IMAGES 

The federal judge presiding over the case in which former President Donald J. Trump is charged with illegally retaining numerous classified documents has scheduled the trial for May 2024.

Cannon’s Decision On Trump Trial Date: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision Friday represents a compromise between the government’s plea to begin the trial in December and Trump’s wish to delay the proceedings indefinity, or until after the 2024 election.

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