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2 verified reports published on August 16, 2023.
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Trump-world spent the day trying to turn chaos into leverage, but the underlying reality was unchanged: the Georgia case was moving, the calendar was tightening, and the legal exposure was getting harder to shrug off. For a campaign built around confrontation, that is not strategy. It is a date with the calendar and the cops of consequence.
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On August 16, 2023, Fulton County prosecutors asked the court to set a March 4, 2024 trial date for Donald Trump and the other defendants in the Georgia election case. The filing was a request, not a ruling, and would put the case on a schedule before Super Tuesday.
Fulton County’s clerk’s office said on August 15 that an unofficial sample document was posted before the Trump indictment was returned, then removed after the mix-up was spotted. The filing did not affect the indictment, but it gave Trump a fresh opening to hammer the process instead of the charges.