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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Inflammatory remarks could speed up 2020 election trial, judge warns Trump

Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, on 11 August.
Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, on 11 August. Photograph: Usa Today Sports/USA Today Sports

The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case on Friday warned inflammatory remarks from the former president would push her to schedule the trial sooner, saying she would take every step to safeguard the integrity of proceedings and to avoid tainting the potential jury pool.

The admonition came as the US district court judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Trump’s requests to have fewer restrictions in a protective order that will govern what evidence turned over to his lawyers in the discovery process the former president could share publicly.

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