Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis proposed March 4, 2024, as the date for the trial of former US President Donald Trump on the accusations of interfering with elections and fabricating state business records.
The trial in March 2024 will take place in the midst of the Republican presidential primaries that year. A day before “Super Tuesday,” when legislators from more than a dozen states and voters from Massachusetts and Maine to California and Texas will choose the next Republican nominee. There have been no remarks from Trump’s attorneys regarding the trial date, despite the fact that Trump is the current favourite to win the Republican nominee.
Trump and 18 other persons were charged by a grand jury in Fulton County on Tuesday with attempting to avenge Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in the state of Georgia in the 2020 presidential election.
The charge was the second this month to accuse Trump of attempting to tamper with the results of the 2020 presidential election, making it the fourth criminal case against him.
Willis said in her filing that she selected the dates “in light of defendant Donald Trump’s other criminal and civil matters pending in the courts of our sister sovereigns.”
She said the timetable she has proposed would not conflict with those other courts’ already scheduled hearings and trial dates.
All of the accused have already been given until noon on August 25 to present themselves at the Fulton County Jail, according to Willis. She also requested on Wednesday that the defendants’ arraignment, or initial procedural hearing, take place the week of September 5.
