Georgia prosecutor wants Trump trial to begin day before Super Tuesday
ATLANTA (FLV) – Fulton County’s district attorney, Fani Willis, pursuing charges against former President Donald Trump, wants his trial to begin the day before Super Tuesday, March 4.
Super Tuesday takes place on March 5, and is the date in the presidential primaries where a large portion of party delegates can be locked in by primary candidates.
More than a dozen states’ primary voters will head to the polls on March 5, 2024, including large states like Texas and California.
The Georgia indictment against Trump marks his fourth one, now centering around alleged efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 election results.
Trump was charged alongside 18 others with a total of 41 criminal counts, all of which involved racketeering, a charge meant for members of organized crime groups.
Per the indictment, Trump faces 13 charges, including crimes such as racketeering, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, and more.
Not long after the proposed date out of Georgia, Trump would also be on trial on March 25, 2024 in a case on alleged hush money payments to a porn star, taking place in New York.
Because of the vast quantity of delegates awarded by Super Tuesday, it is possible the winner of the Republican presidential primary is all-but-official by that time, the Republican National Convention to officially take place in mid-July 2024.
In another case against Trump – pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith, part of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice – the former president would potentially appear in court Jan. 2, 2024.
That date is perilously close to Jan. 15, 2024, the date slated to kick off the primary season with the Iowa caucus.
“Every one of these many Fake Charges filed against me by the Corrupt Biden DOJ could have been filed 2.5 years ago, but they waited and waited until I became dominant in the Polls, and then they filed them all, including locals, right in the middle of my Campaign,” Trump said on social media of recent charges. “They want anybody but ‘TRUMP.’ Not fair and perhaps, not legal.”
“ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”
“Biden & Garland file bogus cases against me so it becomes difficult for me to campaign. Nothing like this has every happened before,” Trump said. “Must be Unconstitutional? BUT SOMEHOW, WE WILL WIN IT ALL!!!”
On theories that the slew of charges brought on in Democratic-leaning areas or by Democratic officials are simply efforts to disqualify Trump from running for president 2024, as he remains the perceived GOP primary frontrunner, the former president previously declared, “I’ll never leave.“
Gov. Ron DeSantis, also seeking the Republican nomination, denounced the latest indictment against Trump, calling it the “criminalization of politics.”
