The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case has agreed to a request from his lawyers to delay the trial for the time being.

In a ruling following a roughly 90-minute hearing, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered that “pre-trial deadlines temporarily stayed pending order to follow.”

BREAKING: Judge Cannon will delay Trump’s Florida trial in Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump.

The tale of two judges.

Judge Cannon puts Jack Smith in his place.
Judge Chutkan let’s Jack Smith run wild.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 3, 2023

BREAKING: As expected, Judge Cannon will delay the trial schedule in Jack Smith's classified documents case against Trump. Details to follow pic.twitter.com/NLuZjF7ckG

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) November 3, 2023

Investigative reporter Julie Kelly, who has been covering this case, offered further explanations on the X platform.

“You will see much caterwauling by corporate media types and usual suspects like Weissmann and McQuade how Cannon is doing Trump’s bidding. But the blame lies SOLELY at the feet of DOJ,” she wrote.

“Jack Smith brought 2 unprecedented federal cases against a former president within two months of each other. He asked for, and was granted, an expedited trial schedule in D.C.,” she continued.

“[U.S. District] Judge [Tanya] Chutkan gave Trump 7 months to prepare for trial–the typical J6 case goes to trial over a year after indictment. The classified docs trial represents major obstacles to defense (Trump and 2 co-defendants) as they attempt to view classified discovery in a Miami SCIF the government just set up on October 18,” Kelly continued.

“All attorneys had to obtain security clearances. Discovery is voluminous–1.3 million pages of unclassified, 5,500 pages of classified, and years’ worth of security footage from Trump’s properties. Further, Smith brought a superseding indictment in classified docs case several weeks after June indictment was handed down, adding another defendant and more charges against Trump,” she wrote.

“Smith is playing games–Chutkan lets him, Cannon doesn’t. Which is why she has earned the enmity of corporate media and their ‘expert’ lapdogs,” she wrote.

I’ll have a column explaining it all after order is filed.

You will see much caterwauling by corporate media types and usual suspects like Weissmann and McQuade how Cannon is doing Trump’s bidding.

But the blame lies SOLELY at the feet of DOJ. Jack Smith brought 2 unprecedented…

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) November 3, 2023