Reactions pour in after Fani Willis proposes Trump trial date on eve of Super Tuesday

Leftists celebrated the latest round of indictments against former President Donald J. Trump and the trial date proposed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was the icing on the cake.

On Wednesday, the politically ambitious prosecutor asked a judge to approve starting the racketeering trial of Trump and 18 others on March 4, 2024, a problematic date for the current GOP frontrunner in that Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the Republican primary season is very the next day on March 5, potentially keeping the former president off of the campaign trail at the most crucial juncture of the race for the 2024 nomination.

In a court filing, Willis also requests that the defendants be scheduled for arraignments the week of September 5, 2023, with the pretrial conference on Feb. 20, 2024.

The early March date is sandwiched in between the proposed date of January 4, 2024, for Trump’s federal trial and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” trial in the Stormy Daniels case which is scheduled to commence on March 25, 2024, which if the prosecution gets their way, could kneecap his bid to return to the White House for a belated second term.

The idea that Trump could be sidelined for the important stretch of the primaries put a smile on the faces of MSNBC’s Katie Tur and Gwen Keyes Fleming, a former district attorney in Dekalb County, Ga., which is next to Fulton County, with both leftists gloating over the proposed date.

Willis may be rip-roaring and ready to get about with Trump’s legal lynching but some experts suggest that such a rush to court is unrealistic.

“You worry it’s going to turn into a circus atmosphere,” Emory University law professor Kay Levine told The Hill, adding that the six-month timeline is “overly optimistic; very, very ambitious; and not really realistic.”

Twitter/X users suggested that the Super Tuesday trial date blows a smoking hole in the insistence that the latest installment in the ongoing witch hunt isn’t political.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has proposed his own date for Trump’s trial in a hostile D.C. courtroom for January 2, 2024, and said that it would take between 4-6 weeks, possibly preventing the Republican frontrunner from participating in the early primaries that will be critical for early momentum.

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Chris Donaldson

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