Trump faces new trial date in Mar-a-Lago
classified documents case as Special Counsel
Jack Smith calls for four month delay
so former president's lawyers can get
'the requisite security clearances'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Harriet Alexander
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/24/2023 8:01:34 AM
Prosecutors have asked for a December trial for Donald Trump over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents, saying the new date would give the former president's legal team time to obtain the necessary security clearance to view the documents.
The judge overseeing the case, Aileen Cannon, on Tuesday provisionally set an August date for the trial.
She said at the time that she was open to requests for it to change.On Friday, the office of Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the investigation, requested a December 11 start.
They said it would allow Trump's legal team sufficient time to obtain the necessary security clearances to view the classified documents.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
msjena 6/24/2023 8:16:03 AM (No. 1498517)
Whjy aren't Trump's lawyers moving to delay this until after the election?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 6/24/2023 8:18:26 AM (No. 1498521)
"Show Trial", a phrase coined in the 1920's in the Soviet Union.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pearson365 6/24/2023 8:20:45 AM (No. 1498522)
Meanwhile, an army of criminals is marching on war criminal Putin while we have a criminal as the head of our military trying to make a criminal out of President Trump in order to “win” re-election. What we are watching in the US and Russia, two countries with over 10,000 nuclear weapons, is beyond science fiction,
Monty Python’s opening line, And now, something completely different, is an understatement to what is unfolding before us due to Biden and Putin,
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 6/24/2023 8:34:03 AM (No. 1498528)
I'd rather be ruled by Xi than this evil bunch.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cindiana 6/24/2023 8:40:11 AM (No. 1498535)
Let me guess....
His lawyers would, at the latest possible moment, be found unable to secure clearance.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Birddog 6/24/2023 8:55:52 AM (No. 1498546)
more honestly..."give the FBI 4 months to dig up dirt on Trumps Lawyers"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mean Gene 6/24/2023 8:58:08 AM (No. 1498548)
So..... four more months of leaks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/24/2023 9:49:48 AM (No. 1498577)
four more months means 2024 during the primaries.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/24/2023 10:32:40 AM (No. 1498600)
They want to hurt trumps chances at being elected and tie him up in a phony trial while he should be campaigning.
Like I said before. I believed that the Russian hoax was the worst dirty trick in history, but this fake trial is even worse.
It makes the hoax a piker.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/24/2023 10:54:20 AM (No. 1498610)
Smith is not doing Trump any favors, he must have other reasons for the delay. The corrupt will always be corrupt.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/24/2023 1:14:33 PM (No. 1498705)
Lies from Smith. Get the trial GOING. Trump declassified all that material. This is just delay.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
gwholmessr 6/25/2023 6:34:29 AM (No. 1499046)
Trump has to be the thickest skin man on the face of the earth. Many people would have committed suicide by now. I know that the man isn’t perfect but he’s innocent, anyone reading this probably agrees. Will this BS ever stop? Can he escape another attempt to be put in jail? Folks I feel that if in 2024 Trump doesn’t become President this country will never come back. Im praying for all those young, like my grandchildren.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 6/25/2023 7:17:13 AM (No. 1499055)
Did Jack Smith do this out of kindnes of his heart or to try to give the impression that the documents that Trump had were so super duper secret that only the cleanest of the clean could hold them?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/25/2023 7:27:18 AM (No. 1499061)
Jack A. Smith is trying to delay so as to interfere with the campaign. PDJT's team has been ready since the start of this Kabuki Theater, but the Dems, their yes-men, this prosecutor, if that's what he claims he is, want to prevent this fiasco coming to conclusion. My question: is campaign interference the same as election interference?
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President Trump’s lawyers should be (and I’m sure they are) preparing petitions for all of these fake, made up charges be dropped without prejudice. End this charade AND Jack Smith once and for all.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/25/2023 7:42:21 AM (No. 1499069)
#7 & 8, I agree. Smith wants to make sure this trial and the others are close together. They intend to use that as a talking point and you can imagine the media’s breathless reporting on it. It will be called unprecedented that a former President and present Presidential candidate is being tried in several courts almost simultaneously. It will be about the trials 24/7 which hurts Trump and allows the American people to forget that old Joe is, once again, hiding in his basement. Democrats are despicable cheats and liars and their leader is a perverted crook.
Smith and his comrades are disgusting examples of just how far the democrat party will go to destroy Trump. It is getting very frustrating to witness Biden and his debauched son live the high life knowing what they are guilty of while President Trump is persecuted by a corrupt political system that should have been exposed in 2020. The American people know who the crooks are and I pray they are as disgusted as I am to see what these election thieves have done to our country. I believe the theft of the election in 2020 proves Edmund Burke’s wise assessment that “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.” I hope all those Republicans and media wizards of smart who counseled President Trump to just let the fraud go choke on their cowardice. In my opinion, they are the existential threat to this country because they knew the election was stolen and they did nothing. Now look where we are. The country is teetering on collapse and the most evil cabal of unAmerican zealots are in charge. These cowards are responsible for failing to honor their oaths of office and to speak truth to power. Our Founders would revile them all for their lack of courage.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
janjan 6/25/2023 8:24:49 AM (No. 1499102)
The whole objective here is to keep Trump off the ballot. That plan is in place. This is the only the first of many trial delays. I know people want to be loyal to Trump. I get it. But at some point our focus has to be on electing a Republican President and getting rid of the vermin in the WH. I’m not sacrificing myself or my country for the sake of one man.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/25/2023 8:30:44 AM (No. 1499107)
But I will, #17.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/25/2023 9:23:15 AM (No. 1499156)
The life of more than one man is at stake. Over 300 million lives are.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
uforabin 6/25/2023 11:10:57 AM (No. 1499238)
#6 expresses my #1 concern. This gives the FBI several months to dig up future blackmail information on Trump’s associates. We don’t know where this is all leading, but we know how the Justice Department operates. They have labeled people simply attending things like Trump rallies, January 6th protests, and school board meetings as insurrectionists. What else could they come up with to justify denying them a clearance to look at what is supposedly classified material? In effect, the Feds have undue influence on the makeup of PDT’s defense team.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/25/2023 11:18:48 AM (No. 1499246)
President Trump was magnificent last night...his speech was spot on and it made me very happy....so the rinos are in trouble with their attempts to inject sanctimonious into the race...the audience was polite...but when President Trump took the stage there was no doubt who the people want....the hoots and hollers were deafening....now folks...let's get the job done and put President Trump back in the White House...away from the obama/biden crime family....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/25/2023 11:21:48 AM (No. 1499247)
Had a weird thought about this. The Special Counsel's name is Jack Smith. Is that his real name or an alias? The name Jack Smith is not far off from John Smith. Common alias. When agents go undercover, they use fake names and identity. Is Jack Smith his real identity? Not sure why anyone would do that, but there is a level of deception in all of this, so I don't rule it out.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/25/2023 12:53:34 PM (No. 1499329)
As usual, DM writes only for headline readers. Deeper analysis has proposed that Jack Smith, that by dictating that President Trump could not have access, nor share, any supporting materials for his trial, was expecting a lengthy court battle which would give the prosecutor more time to prepare (manufacture) his case. When Trump and his lawyers said ok, Mr. Smith was forced to scramble. Once again, Trump is at least one step ahead.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
coldborezero 6/25/2023 1:14:51 PM (No. 1499340)
Re#4: "I'd rather be ruled by Xi than this evil bunch."
I'd rather not be "ruled" by anyone. That is the founding principle of America; that one is fully capable of ruling one's own life and respecting the God-given right of others to do the same. Alas, it appears, that idea was just a dream. As long as there are psychopathic, narcissistic tyrants with an innate, burning desire to rule over others, it will always be just a dream.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/25/2023 1:29:55 PM (No. 1499348)
Demand a speedy trial. It is his right under the United States Constitution. Everything else is lawfare. The process is the punishment.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/25/2023 2:45:39 PM (No. 1499397)
No doubt Biden along with the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats intend to line up the commencement of their political persecution of Trump with the corresponding trial starting right in the middle of the political funny season leading up to the 2024 general election.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/25/2023 7:47:11 PM (No. 1499557)
It doesn't take 4 months to get a security clearance... more like 2.
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