Former President Donald Trump is asking the federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smiths criminal election subversion case against him to set the trial for April . In a filing Thursday evening Trump urged US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington DC to reject Smiths proposal for a January trial saying he seeks a trial calendar more rapid than most nodocument misdemeanors requesting just four months from the beginning of discovery to jury selection . The judge ultimately will decide the trial start date a decision she is likely to make by the end of the month . Trump had promptly objected to the proposal in a Truth Social post saying at the time that any trial in the cases against him should wait until after the presidential election . Such a trial which should never take place due to my First Amendment Rights and massive BIDEN CORRUPTION should only happen if at all AFTER THE ELECTION should only happened after the election . The New York case is set to go to trial in March of next year . The federal judge in the documents case has already set that trial for May while the New York Case is set for March of this year . Fani Willis wants her trial to begin in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willi Willis wants that trial to be in March . The trial is scheduled for May and the trial is expected to take place in May . The case is scheduled to be set to start in March and the New New York trial is slated to go for trial in New York is scheduled in March by the federal Judge Fani . The Florida case is slated for April and the case is due to come to trial again in May and a trial is set in October of this month. The trial was set to be scheduled to take between March of 2013 and October .
Trump proposes April 2026 trial in federal election subversion case .
