Donald Trump’s criminal trial for retaining national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago property and obstructing the justice department’s efforts to retrieve them will take place in May 2024 at the courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, the federal judge overseeing the case ruled on Friday.
The trial date set by the US district court judge Aileen Cannon, which largely tracked her views at a contentious hearing this week, essentially took a middle position between prosecutors’ request for a trial this year and Trump’s suggestion to delay proceedings until after next year’s election.
