The date of the Trump federal election trial is March 4, 2024

Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, will go on trial in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 2024, seven months before the general election. This date was set by a federal judge on Monday.

Judge Tanya Chutkan issued the decision after rejecting two completely different trial dates put forth by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecutors and Trump’s legal team.

Trump «does not» have enough time to prepare, Chutkan claimed in a hearing on Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Washington, claiming that the Department of Justice’s suggestion to have the case go to trial on January 2 «does not.»

However, the judge stated that Trump’s request for an April 2026 trial date went «far beyond what is necessary,» according to NBC News.

Trump was exempt from attending the hearing, which also covered the federal protocols for processing the «small amount of classified information» that the government claimed to have discovered in the case.

Earlier this month, the former president entered a not guilty plea to the four-count indictment accusing him of illegally scheming to reverse his loss to Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Trump, a leading Republican presidential contender who is embroiled in four different criminal investigations, has tried to push back his trials until after the election in November 2024. However, the trial dates in two of his cases have already been established, and they will begin in 2024.

Trump frequently asserts that he is a victim of «election interference,» which is essentially what he is charged with in Georgia’s state-level criminal case as well as in Washington, D.C.

As a result of Smith’s investigation into the former president’s handling of sensitive records after leaving office in early 2021, Trump is also facing federal criminal charges in Florida.

Trial in that case is set to begin in May. The 40 felony charges against Trump in that case have been met with his plea of not guilty.