‘The Court cannot simply take the prosecutors’ word for it’: Trump lawyers ask Mar-a-Lago judge to put an end to Jack Smith’s ‘secret filings’

Judge Aileen Cannon, Donald Trump

Left: Judge Aileen Cannon (Senate Judiciary Committee via AP); Right: Donald Trump visits Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in July 2023 (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Former President Donald Trump and his two co-defendants are once again asking the federal judge overseeing the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case to delay setting a trial date.

In a six-page motion filed late Friday, defense attorneys argued that despite a looming window to set the date of the trial, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon should put the kibosh on that timeline due to myriad pretrial motions and the sheer volume of discovery in the case.

Stylized as a “joint speedy trial report,” the filing from the 45th president — as well as Waltine Nauta, Trump’s longtime butler, and Carlos De Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago’s property manager — comes in response to a request from the court made earlier this week.

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