Tuesday 26 March 2024

Donald Trump now has two out of four trial dates

We now know for sure that Donald Trump, Republican nominee-designate for the White House, multi-billionaire and mass property owner, is going to face trials this year in at least two out of the four cases confronting him. The first one involves his alleged attempt to hide within his business accounts a $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about her claim they had sex together which the former president has denied. That trial is set for April 15. There seems little chance he can delay that any further. The next one will take place on May 25, according to current scheduling. This is the one where Trump is accused of taking hundreds of classified documents to his resort residence in Florida which, even for a former president, is illegal. It's possible this date might slip but it will still go ahead before the November election unless the US Supreme Court waves a magic wand (magical for Trump that is) and declares that anything Trump did as president and as an ex-president is above the law and unprosecutable. This unlikely potential ruling is supposed to be focused on the most serious charge Trump is facing which is his alleged involvement in the events which led to an insurrection and an attack on the Capitol after he had lost the 2020 election. But if the judges on the Supreme Court decide he should be alllowed some form of immunity, then I guess Trump's lawyers will try to use that ruling to get rid of all the charges, including the stashing of classified documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. We're just over seven months from the election, so a lot could happen to swing things in or away from Trump's favour. But if he is found guilty at the April 15 trial of paying hush money and burying it in the Trump business accounts, will that be enough to turn off a lot of his loyal supporters? Somehow, I doubt it.

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