Trump camp attacks Fani Willis' proposed trial date as election interference

Following Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' proposal of an August 5, 2024 trial date for former President Donald Trump's election racketeering case in Georgia, the Trump camp is coming out swinging against it.

Willis says she proposed the date as a way to avoid conflicts with other pending criminal cases against the former president, like the federal 2020 election case and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, which will take up a long time in the beginning of the year and in fact may be delayed even more. But Trump and his associates are claiming it's meant to disrupt the presidential election.

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"Radical Democrat Fani Willis has again proven that her case is purely political, designed to interfere with President Trump's re-election by demanding a trial date in the most vital time in President Trump's winning campaign," said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung in a statement.

"Crooked Joe Biden knows he can't beat President Trump and this corrupt step by Fani Willis is just further proof of that," the statement concluded.

Trump's attorneys, meanwhile, have filed an objection to the proposed trial date, also demanding that Judge Scott McAfee schedule oral arguments on the matter.

The Georgia case alleges that Trump was the leader of an organized crime scheme to overturn the vote in Georgia. Some of his co-defendants, including attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, have already pleaded guilty.