The new york trial. you can see what s coming down with the trials, the primary calendar. there are many, many things facing this candidate defendant. there just aren t many wide open windows, so the defendant candidate will be facing civil trials, debates and primaries. the federal trial set one day before super tuesday. precedents we have and reporting available suggests president trump would under the norm rules have to be present in person for his criminal trials, some of which could clearly stretch weeks at a time, as politico put it. as for the fairness to this defendant, the federal judge also addressed these trump lawyer s claims that the plan here is, quote, too fast to be fair. that s kind of what they were arguing, the show trial thing. here s what the judge said. a trial start date of march 4th