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April 4, 2024 was a rough one for Trumpworld: one federal judge refused to toss the classified-documents case, and another delayed the election-interference trial again while the Supreme Court’s immunity fight hung over everything.
April 4 brought Trump a double dose of legal bad news. In Florida, a federal judge rejected his bid to kill the classified-documents prosecution. In Washington, the election-subversion case stayed stalled as the court formally pushed the trial back while the immunity issue worked its way through the Supreme Court. The immediate result was more delay, but the broader message was simpler: Trump’s legal strategy was still buying time, not victory.
The day’s throughline was plain enough. Trump kept finding ways to slow the machinery, but the machinery kept grinding. That is not the same thing as a win, and on April 4 the gap between the two was looking awfully expensive.
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A federal judge on April 4 denied Donald Trump’s request to toss the classified-documents indictment on Presidential Records Act grounds, leaving other defense motions unresolved.
On April 4, the federal election-interference case was still on hold while Trump’s immunity appeal remained unresolved. The March 4 trial date had already been vacated earlier, and no new date had replaced it.