Trump to appear in a Florida courthouse for classified documents case hearing today

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office signaled in a Florida courtroom Friday that the Justice Department’s policy against taking actions close to an election does not apply to the federal indictments against former President Donald Trump. One of the prosecutors made that clear during a key scheduling hearing in which U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon heard arguments over when the trial in the classified documents case should be scheduled, with Trump’s defense team stating that it would be “unfair” to hold before the presidential election in…