Former US President’s Legal Team Donald Trump (2017-2021) requested this Thursday that a trial in Washington over its alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election be held before April 2026.

In a petition addressed to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is in charge of the criminal trial against the former president in the US capital, Trump’s lawyers justified their decision. a large number of materials that the prosecutor’s office presented as evidence.

In fact, the document includes a graph showing the height that reaches the tower, consisting of 11.5 million pieces of paper. presented by the prosecution, compared to the Washington Monument or the Statue of Liberty.

Pictured is a paper tower equals just over eight Washington Monuments“with almost a million free pages,” according to lawyers.

“To put the 11.5 million pages into perspective, we started uploading initial government data on August 13, 2023. Two days later it was still loadingthey wrote.

The team of lawyers assured that, having immediately begun to familiarize themselves with the material presented by the prosecutor’s office, they would have to read the equivalent of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, “78 times a day, every day.” reach the date proposed by the Government for the commencement of jury selection.

Last week, the special prosecutor in charge of this case, Jack Smith, asked to start the trial on January 2, 2024.just days away from the third anniversary of the 2021 Capitol storming that Trump is accused of encouraging.

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In its motion, the prosecutor’s office calculated that the trial “will not last more than four to six weeks”and felt that January 2 was the date that would give the former Conservative president enough time to prepare his defense.

Trump is accused on four counts. related to attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct official process, obstruction and attempted obstruction of official process, and conspiracy against rights.

This is just one of four criminal cases currently brought against the former president, along with charges in Georgia, Florida and New York.

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However, the legal turmoil seems to be giving Trump wings in his efforts to win the Republican candidacy for the US presidency. take part in the 2024 electionsin which he hopes to take on Biden again for the presidency, and the former president has long dominated all polls in the conservative primaries.

In the meantime, his legal team was pursuing a delay strategy. seeks to maximize processes to bring them out after the 2024 elections (EFE)