In Brief: Where All the Trump Cases Stand
As one trial kicks off this week, here’s the status of Democrat lawfare against the former president.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s trumped up trial began Monday in New York. You know the one — the DA inflated some bookkeeping entries into 34 felony counts to try to put Donald Trump in jail. We’ve also covered his civil trials — the one over real estate valuation and the successive defamation cases. What about the rest? The Daily Wire’s Daniel Chaitin has the details.
Georgia — “election interference”
In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is leading a 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump and his allies. Trump and 18 co-defendants pleaded not guilty to a bevy of charges, but four of them have since taken plea deals.
The case got sidetracked as the defense raised concerns about Willis and her special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, having an improper relationship. A judge allowed Willis to stay on the case Wade resigned in March. Afterward, CNN reported Willis hoped to have the trial before the 2024 election.
Willis has requested an appeals court uphold the ruling after the defense sought a review. She said in a recent letter to House GOP investigators seeking documents that “nothing that you do will derail the efforts of my staff and I to bring the election interference prosecution to trial.”
Jack Smith — “election interference”
Smith has pressed the Supreme Court to fast-track consideration of Trump’s presidential immunity claim to clear the way for a trial in the election case in Washington, D.C., which has already blown past the presiding judge’s plan for a March 4 start date. The high court is expected to hear oral arguments on April 25.
Jack Smith — classified documents
The trial in Smith’s documents case has been set to begin on May 20 in Florida, though the judge in that matter has indicated she may postpone it. Prosecutors have proposed the trial be pushed back to July 8 while Trump’s legal team settled on August 12 as their preferred start date after pressing for it to start after the November election.
“This is a political persecution, a persecution like never before,” Trump said of Bragg’s case. He’s said similar things about all of the cases, and he’s largely right. The Left’s relentless persecution will continue at least through Election Day and, if he wins, beyond.
Daily Wire subscribers can read the whole thing here.
And, of course, as our friends at the Babylon Bee put it, “Judge Warns Trump Criminal Trial May Last Until, Say, November 6.”
