Judge Aileen Cannon, the Florida district judge presiding over the Donald Trump classified documents saga, has scheduled a trial date of 20 May 2024 to hear the case against the former president.
Mr Trump was initially charged in an indictment unsealed on 9 June with 37 criminal counts, including violations of the Espionage Act, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to investigators in relation to a stash of top secret papers that had to be recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach in the aftermath of his presidency after repeated requests for their safe return by the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) in 2021 went unanswered.
