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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell

Trump 2026 trial date in election case should be rejected, prosecutors argue

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team called the Trump’s teams comparison of the volume of discovery material to a Tolstoy novel ‘neither helpful nor insightful’.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team called the Trump’s teams comparison of the volume of discovery material to a Tolstoy novel ‘neither helpful nor insightful’. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Special counsel prosecutors sharply objected on Monday to Donald Trump’s request for an April 2026 trial date in the case involving his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, arguing his lawyers’ reasons were disingenuous and denied the American public’s right to a speedy trial.

The six-page court filing took particular issue with how the former US president’s legal team used flawed statistics to apparently settle on having a trial take place three years after he was charged with four felony counts in August for conspiring to return himself to office.

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