Former President Donald Trump will temporarily avoid an ongoing trial in Fulton County on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election if he wins in 2024, the politician’s lawyer Steve Sadow said. transmits Guard. In this case, according to him, the trial will be postponed until 2029 because the US Constitution prohibits states from interfering with the functions of the federal government.
“The Supremacy Clause and his responsibilities as President of the United States; this hearing will absolutely not occur before the end of his term,” Sadow explained.
As The Guardian notes, the trial is currently not ruled out as starting in late summer 2024, but the exact date will not be known until several months before the hearings begin. The publication adds that Trump’s lawyers admitted that they would try to remove the politician from the election campaign at a crucial moment.
In the summer of 2023, Trump was indicted in several criminal cases, including those related to the attempted attack on the Capitol in January 2021, the 2020 election, and the illegal storage of classified documents at the former US President’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The politician himself denies his guilt in all cases and says the investigations against him are political persecution by the current President Joe Biden administration. Trump warned his supporters that he faces 561 years in prison on all charges, according to media reports.
Previously to Trump denied There is immunity in the event of an attack on the Capitol.