Trump judge hints at summer trial in election interference case

The federal judge presiding over former President Trump’s stalled election interference case suggested a summer trial is still possible in the blockbuster case.

Judge Tanya Chutkan told lawyers on a separate case that she plans to be out of the country on vacation in early August, unless the Trump case is back on her plate.

The only reason she would be in the U.S. is because, “I’m in trial in another matter that has not yet returned to my calendar.”

That was  reference to the Trump election interference case. Special counsel Jack Smith filed four charges against the former president related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Chutkan has ruled the case cannot go forward until higher courts rule on Trump’s claim that he enjoys blanket immunity…