Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC federal courthouse Thursday to federal criminal charges stemming from his plots to overturn the election . It was the third occasion that Trump was arraigned on criminal charges this year and the hearing marked the public debut of the team of lawyers in special counsel Jack Smiths office who will be leading the prosecution . There were hints of a similar strategy in the first hearing in the election subversion case . The judge said the prosecutors should file recommendations for the trial date and length in seven days and that the Trump team should respond within seven days after that . Trump attorney John Lauro told the judge that they would need to look at the amount of evidence theyll be receiving from the government which he said could be massive before they could address that question . Trump may argue that a trial should wait until after the election an argument his legal team made unsuccessfully in the classified documents case . In Georgia in the coming weeks Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to bring charges in her election subverting probe and its possible that Trump will be indicted in that . The first Republican presidential debate for instance is scheduled to go trial next May and there will be regular pretrial proceedings at which Trump is not required to appear in court on pretrial matters . The case is scheduled for trial in March and there is also scheduled to be regular pre-trial proceedings . The trial is currently scheduled to going trial in May but there will also be regular Pretrial proceedings in New York and there would be regular hearings at which Trumps is not expected to be scheduled to happen in March . Trump will not be required to be pre-empted by the pre-trial proceedings. The first Democratic presidential debate is scheduled in August and there should be
Takeaways from the arraignment of Donald Trump in the special counsel’s election subversion
