DONALD Trump will go on trial next May over claims he illegally stashed hundreds of secret documents after leaving office.
The former president, 77, faces a two-week court case on 37 federal charges in the middle of next year’s election campaign.
Prosecutors claim he stacked boxes of documents at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
He is accused of retaining hundreds of files on nuclear weapons, foreign militaries and CIA operations – as well as showing them to guests at his golf club.
Trump’s lawyers had requested the trial be held after the election next November – potentially nullifying the charges as laws protect a sitting president from prosecution.