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.
BREAKING: Fulton County DA Fani Willis has proposed a March 4, 2024 trial date for Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants, as well as arraignments the week of September 5.
Gwen Keyes Fleming, former DA for DeKalb County, GA, discusses with @KatyTurNBC. pic.twitter.com/Q4wIzOcn4v
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 16, 2023
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.
The state of Georgia has proposed March 4th for the start of the Trump trial. Timing significance? That’s the day before Super Tuesday. Its almost as if all of these charges are 100% designed to directly impact politics.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 16, 2023
There are 365 days in a year and Fani Willis just so happened to settle on THE DAY BEFORE SUPER TUESDAY for when she wants Donald Trump to be on trial in Georgia. https://t.co/sNMDDI39GL
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 16, 2023
Well, requesting a trial date on the day before the biggest day on the primary calendar should stop any discussion as to whether this prosecution is political or not. https://t.co/xs1F0yM1Nk
— Alex Gilmore (@a_gilmore8) August 16, 2023
Fani Willis officially requested a March 4, 2024 court date for Donald Trump.
The day after March 4, 2024 is Super Tuesday.
You really wanna try and tell us that’s just a coincidence?
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) August 16, 2023
None of this is coincidence:
Jan 15
– Iowa Republican Caucas
– Trump faces a defamation case in New YorkMid February
– New Hampshire host second GOP nomination
– Trump due in court in GA indictmentsMarch 2024
– Super Tuesday voting in 14 states
– Trumps trial in…— Travis (@Travis_in_Flint) August 16, 2023
It’s all a big cooperative effort to distract Trump from campaigning
— Anthony Perez (@APFromNY) August 16, 2023
Sending a clear message exactly what this is all about.
— Iron Mike (@VladDragulya) August 16, 2023
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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