Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 9th May. US trial Judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday announced in a letter that the previously planned start of the trial of former US President Donald Trump classified documents trial on May 20 has been cancelled, unresolved legal issues were behind the postponement, she said.
It is therefore unlikely that the trial will begin before the US presidential election in November, Judge stated.
The decision is a success for the Republican candidate, as he is trying to delay the start of a possible trial as much as possible.
Trump 77-year-old hopes to move back into the White House after the presidential election.
He is on trial in a court in New York in connection with hush money payments to a porn actress Stormy Daniels. But this trial is not Trump’s only legal problem.
Trump was hit with federal charges in the document affair last year.
He is accused of unlawfully retaining highly-sensitive information from his time as president between 2017 and 2021.
In August 2022, the FBI raided Trump’s mansion in Florida and seized several sets of documents classified as top secret. Trump is also accused of conspiring to obstruct the investigation.
He is alleged to have tried to use associates to make footage from surveillance cameras disappear and to have boxes of documents taken away.
Trump pleaded not guilty when the charges were presented in Miami last year.
His lawyers are still trying to avert the trial, invoking Trump’s immunity as president.
They argue that keeping the documents as personal records was an official act of the president.
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