Trump lawyer Alina Habba calls trial dates ‘unrealistic’ and ‘theatrics’
Emily Jacobs
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Former President Donald Trump‘s attorney Alina Habba predicted on Sunday that the dates currently set for his four criminal trials will be rescheduled to spread them out.
Habba made the prediction during an interview on Fox News Sunday, after being asked how Trump and his attorneys were logistically preparing for each of the trials in the midst of him running in the 2024 presidential election.
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“These trial dates are going to move. It’s unrealistic. It’s theatrics,” Habba said of the current schedule. “No judge is going to say that you can be on two trials at once in two different states, because a lot of these overlap. They look at the start date of the trial, but these are four to six-week trials at the least. So there’s no way they’re not going to overlap. They’re gonna have to go into October, November of next year.”
The former president and 18 others were named in a 41-count indictment handed down in Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this month that accuses the group of unlawfully conspiring to conduct and participate in a “criminal enterprise” following Trump’s 2020 election loss in the Peach State.
The indictment marks the fourth case brought against the former president this year and the second related to his attempts at reversing President Joe Biden’s election victory.
In addition to the Georgia case, Trump faces four federal counts in a separate 2020 election case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights, according to the 45-page indictment.
Those charges largely hinge on the allegation that Trump was aware that his words and actions related to overturning the 2020 election were based on falsities.
The indictment states that from roughly Nov. 14, 2020, to Jan. 20, 2021, Trump “did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the grand jury, to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States — that is, the right to vote, and to have one’s vote counted.”
Trump also faces 40 counts in the Justice Department’s classified documents case against him, which Smith said in May were related to “felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in late March on charges related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty, and a trial has been scheduled for March of next year.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing in the hush money and documents matters and vowed to fight both sets of charges. He has also maintained his innocence in the state and federal investigations regarding his handling of his 2020 election loss.
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The New York trial for the hush money matter is scheduled for March 25 of next year, and the federal trial for the classified documents case has been set for May 20, 2024. Smith has asked the judge overseeing the 2020 election case to start the trial on Jan. 2, 2024, while lawyers for Trump have requested an April 2026 start date.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the Georgia case, has called for an early March start date, which the defense is expected to fight.