Special counsel trashes Trump’s demand to delay Mar-a-Lago documents trial till after the 2024 election

Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors on Thursday trashed former President Donald Trump’s demand to delay his trial until after the election, saying “there is no basis in law” for such a move. Federal prosecutors derided the claims by Trump that putting him on trial before voters go to the polls in November 2024 would amount to an unfair interference in the election in which Trump is seeking a return to the White House. “There is no basis in law or fact for proceeding in such an indeterminate and open-ended fashion, and the defendants provide none,” prosecutors wrote in a filing to U.S. Dis...