Trump arrives in federal court in Florida for closed hearing in his classified documents case

Former President Donald Trump arrived Monday morning at a federal courthouse in Florida for a closed listening to in his legal case charging him with mishandling categorised paperwork.

The listening to was scheduled to debate the procedures for the dealing with of categorised proof within the case, which is presently set for trial on May 20. Trump faces dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding extremely categorised data at his Mar-a-Lago property and obstructing FBI efforts to get them again.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon expects to listen to arguments within the morning from protection legal professionals and within the afternoon from prosecutors, every outdoors of the opposite’s presence.

“Defense counsel shall be prepared to discuss their defense theories of the case, in detail, and how any classified information might be relevant or helpful to the defense,” Cannon wrote in scheduling the listening to.

Trump’s motorcade arrived on the courthouse in Fort Pierce shortly after 9 a.m.

The listening to is one in all a number of voluntary courtroom appearances that Trump has made in current weeks — he was current, for example, at appeals courtroom arguments final month in Washington — as he seems to reveal to supporters that he intends to struggle the 4 legal prosecutions he faces whereas additionally searching for to reclaim the White House this November.