Judge Aileen M. Cannon did not immediately set a new date, but the delay increases the chance that the trial will not happen before the November election.
The former president’s claim ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court hearing that he was protecting the election system rather than subverting it is part of a pattern of shaping his own reality.
“Don’t give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will,” an unnamed associate told Donald J. Trump, according to an interview the person gave the F.B.I. in the classified documents case.