After learning that U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan had set his election conspiracy trial date for March 4, 2024 — which is just a day before the Super Tuesday GOP primaries — disgraced and multiply indicted former president Donald Trump raged on his failing Truth Social site, even going to far as to insist that the entire House Select Committee on January 6 should be arrested and charged with crimes.
In setting the date, Judge Chutkan noted:
During a hearing on Monday, Chutkan heard arguments from Trump’s lawyers and federal prosecutors about when the case could be set for trial. Special counsel Jack Smith proposed that the trial start in January, with jury selection beginning in December of this year, while Trump’s team said the trial should be pushed back until April 2026, after the presidential election.
“These proposals are obviously very far apart,” Chutkan said Monday. “Neither of them is acceptable.”
Chutkan said that Trump will have to prioritize the trial and that she wouldn’t change the trial schedule based upon another defendant’s professional obligations, say, for a professional athlete.
Trump responded:
“Deranged Jack Smith & his team of Thugs, who were caught going to the White House just prior to Indicting the 45th President of the United States (an absolute No No!), have been working on this Witch Hunt for almost 3 years, but decided to bring it smack in the middle of Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent’s campaign against him. Election Interference! Today a biased, Trump Hating Judge gave me only a two month extension, just what our corrupt government wanted, SUPER TUESDAY. I will APPEAL!”
The failed ex-president then added:
“Page 2: How do you have an Indictment that is based almost entirely on the findings of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Marxists, Fascists, and Political Hacks, when these same lowlifes, who have been caught lying for years about Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, FISA, the Fake Dossier, & much more, purposely & Illegally DESTROYED & DELETED all of the Evidence, Findings, & Proof of the January 6th Committee? When will Deranged Jack Smith Criminally Charge the Committee?”
Despite Trump’s insistence that he will appeal the trial date set by the judge, it’s unlikely he’ll win a favorable ruling. Federal judges are given tremendous latitude to run their courtrooms and trials heard in them the way they want. Even the Supreme Court isn’t likely to hear such an appeal, if only because they don’t want to be seen as literally interfering in a pending trial.
