A former federal prosecutor and legal analyst said last week that it looked increasingly “unlikely” that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon would allow former President Donald Trump to be tried in his classified documents case before the November election.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, is currently facing four criminal indictments. Two of these indictments were initiated at the federal level by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith.
One federal case revolves around Trump’s purported mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida following his departure from the White House.
Prosecutors allege that he unlawfully retained documents containing sensitive national security information, stored them inadequately, and declined to cooperate when requested to return them.
