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Trump in court for documents trial scheduling hearing as attorneys push for delay past 2024 election

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Former President Donald Trump was back in court Friday morning — this time in South Florida — as his attorneys push for his trial on federal criminal charges of unlawfully retaining national security documents to be held after the 2024 election.

Trump, 77, was greeted by a crowd of supporters outside the Fort Pierce courthouse around 9:30 a.m., a half-hour before the hearing before US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who will decide whether to accept proposed trial dates submitted by the former president’s defense team and special counsel Jack Smith.

On Thursday, Smith filed a motion requesting a July 8 trial start, while Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Christopher Kise asked in a subsequent filing for proceedings to begin on Aug. 12.

Blanche and Kise wrote that Smith’s proposed trial date for their client, the current 2024 GOP front-runner, would violate a Justice Department policy that prohibits a special counsel from taking “actions that may have an impact on an election.”

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