Trump’s Trial on Attempt to Undermine 2020 Presidential Election Results Postponed
Judge Tanya Chutkan decided to postpone the trial “indefinitely”
Meanwhile, the president, Joe Biden, seeks to turn the polls to win a new term in the White House
One less problem for Donald Trump, the big favorite of the Republican Party in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan announced that “the trial of Donald Trump, in which the former U.S. president is indicted for ‘attempting to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election,’ has been postponed indefinitely.”
Chutkan’s decision comes two months after Trump’s lawyers appealed her decision “not to grant immunity to their client” in early December 2023. At the time, lawyers suggested he “has every right” because the events, including the January 2021 attack on Congress, “technically occurred while Trump was still formally president of the United States.”
According to the American media, “the trial could be postponed for several months,” allowing Trump to continue his winning campaign in the Republican primaries and subsequently in the presidential election scheduled for November 5. The case could also be “transferred to the Supreme Court with further postponement of the next hearing.” Trump’s lawyers have successfully tried to delay the lawsuit until at least late next July, when the primaries are over.
Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president in the country’s history to face a criminal trial. The most serious charge is a federal indictment relating to the January 2021 attack on a congressional building in Washington, D.C., presented by the current U.S. establishment as “an attempt to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” which was won by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
And while Trump is winning Republican primary elections in one state after another, his Democratic rival is trying to turn around polls – very unflattering for him – to gain a new mandate in the White House. Back from Michigan, Joe Biden will be in California and Nevada on Saturday and Sunday, but the president’s attention will surely be on South Carolina, where he was last weekend, for the results of the opening round of the Democratic primary election. The result seems obvious, but the first vote within the party will officially mark the beginning of the presidential race for the 81-year-old Biden, who is determined to remain in the Oval Office of the White House for another four years.