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District Attorney Fani Willis asked that all defendants remaining in the case — the former president and 14 others — be tried together beginning Aug. 5.
Prosecutors have previously estimated it would take them four months to present their case. That would mean the trial would be underway during the final months of the election campaign.
A Fulton County grand jury in August indicted Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn the result of the 2020 election and to keep Trump in power even though he had lost to Democrat Joe Biden.