Trump Lawyers Accuse Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Office of ‘Reckless’ Behavior in Court Docs

Attorneys said the prosecutor’s aim is to secure a conviction against the former president before the 2024 election, no matter the cost.

Former President Donald Trump sits inside the courtroom for the third day of his civil fraud trial in New York on Oct. 4, 2023. Jeenah Moon /AFP via Getty Images

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump made another attempt on Oct. 11 to postpone the upcoming trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents, asking the court to delay it until November 2024, after the upcoming presidential election.

The former president is set to go on trial in May as part of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in which prosecutors allege he improperly retained top secret documents after he left the White House in 2021 and conspired to obstruct government efforts to get the records back.