A Florida judge on Wednesday considers a new request from Donald Trump’s lawyers to drop charges against the former US president in the case of his alleged negligent handling of secret documents.
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In this criminal case, Judge Aileen Cannon recently decided to postpone sine die the start of the trial, which was scheduled for May.
The Republican presidential candidate in November, who hopes to take his 2020 revenge against Democrat Joe Biden, is being sued for his negligent handling of documents considered confidential at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida (southeast), after his departure from the White House in January 2021.
He is accused of having kept these documents, including military plans or information on nuclear weapons, instead of handing them over to the National Archives as required by law. Two of his personal assistants are also being prosecuted in Florida.
The billionaire’s lawyers have already several times asked Judge Cannon, appointed to her position by Donald Trump, then president, to drop the charges against him.
The judge indicated at the beginning of May that she had postponed the trial due to the large number of appeals. It is now very unlikely that this trial will take place before the presidential election on November 5.
Donald Trump, 77, is currently on trial in New York in another criminal case, for hidden payments to a former porn star who claims to have had a sexual relationship with him. He is not expected to be present at the hearing, scheduled for Fort Pierce.
The ex-president is also being prosecuted in two ways for his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election: in Washington by federal justice and in Georgia by local justice.
If he were elected again, he could order the abandonment of the two federal proceedings against him, the one in Washington and the one in Florida.
