ex-president Donald Trump (2017-2021) filed this Thursday with a Georgia court that will hear his case in connection with an alleged attempt to overturn that state’s 2020 election results to separate his case from those of the other 18 defendants in a new attempt to delay the case. process.

Lawyers for the ex-president have submitted a document to the Fulton, Georgia District Court asking that the Trump case be separated from the cases of other defendants who asked for a speedy trial.

All this after the prosecutor in charge of the case, Fanny Willis, asked on Tuesday that they all be tried at the same time.

Court not yet decided whether or not to approve Willis’ proposalwhich would mean the trial would start on October 23, as Judge Scott McAfee had already decided that was the start date for the trial against one of the defendants, attorney Kenneth Chezebrough.

According to Trump’s lawyers, this date does not give the former president enough time to prepare a defense.

“Requiring less than two months to prepare for the defense a 98-page indictment with 19 defendants and 41 different counts, including one from the RICO conspiracy…would violate President Trump’s federal and state constitutional rights to a fair trial and due process.” , indicates a document published by a newspaper Hill.

On Thursday, Trump pleaded not guilty to 13 charges brought against him in Georgia. attempt to rig the 2020 election results in a state where he narrowly lost to Democrat and current President Joe Biden.

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The former president also “freely and voluntarily” waived his right to attend the official reading of the charges in court scheduled for September 6.

Trump, who is running for the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, In the remaining three criminal proceedings, he no longer pleaded guilty. under which he has been charged in Washington, Florida and New York.

As Judge McAfee told local media this Thursday Atlanta News FirstThe trial in Georgia will be broadcast live via the YouTube platform.

The ex-president traveled to Georgia a week ago They will register it and take a photo.. He spent only 20 minutes in the Fulton County Jail and was released on $200,000 bail.

Trump is the first former president in U.S. history to face charges and has four criminal cases to his credit.

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In addition to Georgia, he faces legal action in New York for illegal payments he made during the 2016 election campaign. silence porn actress Stormy Daniels for the “romance” they had in the past.

In addition, he will stand trial in Florida for took secret documents to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021 and, finally, he must respond in Washington to the attack on the Capitol in 2021, in which his supporters tried to interrupt the legislative process to confirm Biden’s victory in 2020. (EFE)