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    8 months ago

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    The latest filing from special counsel Jack Smith illustrates how the former president’s multiple criminal cases are tied together — and further entangled with an election calendar that kicks off in January with the start of the 2024 primary contests.

    That request for a pause came hours after Trump’s lawyers had told Cannon that the Florida case over his handling of classified documents needed to be delayed because of conflicting scheduling demands.

    His attorneys had appeared before Cannon earlier in the day to make their argument, with one lawyer for Trump joining the hearing remotely from New York, where he is defending the former president in an ongoing civil fraud trial.

    Overnight, Trump’s lawyers called for a delay in “all proceedings” in the Washington case until the questions of presidential immunity “are fully resolved,” his attorney John Lauro said in a filing.

    His lawyers’ effort shows Trump’s “overriding interest in delaying both trials at any cost,” counselor to the special counsel Jay Bratt wrote.

    Trump was charged in Florida with mishandling classified defense secrets after he left office, and in Washington in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election.


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