Donald Trump Wants Federal Election Interference Trial Delayed to April 2026

Donald Trump is wanting to kick one among his prison instances down the highway — method down the highway — he desires his federal election interference trial to start after he will get one other shot on the White House.

In new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Trump is searching for to delay his upcoming trial till April 2026 … as an alternative of the January 2024 trial date Special Counsel Jack Smith desires.

Trump’s proposed trial begin would fall about 17 months after the 2024 presidential election, through which he is the main Republican candidate.

According to the docs, Trump says the delay is critical as a result of prosecutors have produced 11.5 million pages of paperwork — which he says if stacked collectively would stretch almost 5,000 ft into the sky — and his attorneys want time to comb by way of all of it.

The former president is now going through 4 prison instances, however that is associated to his federal indictment for trying to undermine the 2020 election along with his actions on, earlier than and after January 6, 2021.

Remember, prosecutors on the Department of Justice charged Trump on Aug. 1 with 4 counts — conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to impede an official continuing, obstruction of and try to impede an official continuing and conspiracy towards rights (to vote).

Trump’s pleaded not responsible … and Smith’s workforce of prosecutors beforehand filed docs requesting jury choice start in December, with the trial beginning Jan. 2.

Of course, that will be sq. in the midst of Trump’s marketing campaign for the 2024 election — consider the Iowa Caucus is on Jan. 15.

So, it isn’t all that stunning Trump desires to hit pause, and push it till properly after the 2024 election … to a date when he might really be POTUS, as soon as once more. That would make extra historical past.