Judge signals December may be too soon for Trump’s classified documents case, but doesn’t set date

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Associated Press

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has signaled that December may be too soon to begin Donald Trump’s criminal trial concerning the mishandling of classified documents. But Judge Aileen Cannon did not say whether she would agree to Trump’s request to put the trial off until after the 2024 election. She says she will issue a written order “promptly” after a nearly two-hour hearing Tuesday in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, where lawyers for Trump pressed for an indefinite delay of a trial date. Prosecutors have proposed that the trial begin in December, saying the case is not complex and there’s no need for a lengthy delay.