This evening we got some fairly shocking news.

President Trump is asking a court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials

before the November election.

Specifically, Trump is requesting the Marilago classified documents case

to begin on August 12th.

That is correct.

Donald Trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the presidential election.

Except that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3D chess, which

yeah doesn't sound like something that Donald Trump plays all that often, but bear with me here.

Trump pitching that August date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal

case, the special counsel's much more serious federal election interference case

from going to trial before the election.

Yesterday we got that massive news that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear

Trump's argument that those criminal trials in the DC case

should be thrown out because of presidential immunity. But the court didn't

schedule oral arguments on that case to start until the week of April 22nd.

And because of that delay, even if the Supreme Court decides this case incredibly quickly,

this election interference case most likely could not start until late July.

Now, we know from forms that were sent to potential jurors last year that once that case starts the court expects it will last

approximately three months which means that the window in which the DC

election interference case could take place and conclude before the November election that window is a very very small

It is basically sometime between mid-July and mid-August

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