Trump cashes in on another postponement for Georgia trial, after one for classified documents

Donald Trump gets another of his trials postponed, after the one (sine die) for the secret Mar-a-Lago papers. An appeals court granted his request to hear an appeal of Judge Scott McAfee's decision to dismiss prosecutor Fani Willis from the case over attempts to overturn the vote in Georgia in 2020. The commencement of the proceedings had not yet been set, but the consideration of the appeal will guarantee the tycoon a further adjournment. Trump and other co-defendants challenge Pm's conflicts of interest in the affair with another investigator.

The Florida federal judge presiding over the prosecution of the classified documents that former President Donald Trump allegedly embezzled when he was in office has cancelled the 20 May trial date, postponing it indefinitely. This greatly reduces the likelihood of Trump facing a jury in either of the two federal criminal cases against him before 5 November.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon's order was expected in light of the still unresolved issues in the case and because Trump is currently on trial in a separate case in Manhattan on charges of hidden money payments during the 2016 presidential election. The New York case involves many of the same lawyers representing him in the federal case in Florida.

Cannon said in a five-page order on Tuesday that it would be "imprudent" to set a new trial date now, casting further doubt on whether federal prosecutors could bring Trump to trial before the November presidential election.

Trump, who is trying to regain the presidency, was supposed to go to court on 20 May but both the prosecution and the defence had acknowledged that that date should be delayed.