The special counsel, Jack Smith, and his team have strongly criticized Donald Trump’s request to postpone his criminal trial for allegedly hoarding classified documents until after the 2024 election.

They characterized Trump’s call for a delay as baseless and referred to one of his key legal arguments as “borderline frivolous.”

In an 11-page filing signed by assistant special counsel David Harbach, prosecutors asserted that both federal law and the Constitution require the trial to proceed as soon as practicable, without an “open-ended” timeline tailored to Trump’s political calendar.

Harbach emphasized that there is no legal or factual basis provided by the defendants to justify such an indefinite and open-ended approach, Politico has reported.

This filing represents the latest effort by Smith’s team to convince U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to adopt their proposed schedule, which aims to commence the trial in mid-December, a year earlier than Trump has requested.

Furthermore, Smith’s team dismissed the notion that the issues raised by Trump are unusually complex or unprecedented.

They cited past cases involving former President Richard Nixon and upheld the authority of special counsels to conduct federal investigations.

Regarding Trump’s contention that the Presidential Records Act, which pertains to federal recordkeeping and lacks a criminal component, provides him with a defense in this case, Harbach described it as “borderline frivolous.”

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