Trump lawyers hope Judge Cannon can help them interfere with his other criminal cases

District judge Aileen Cannon has stunned legal experts with a series of unusually favorable rulings for Donald Trump, and the former president's lawyers are hoping she might help him avoid a trial in another federal court.

The Florida-based judge has helped Trump stall his prosecution in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, making a trial that would end before the election unlikely, and his legal team sees an opportunity for Cannon to put District judge Tanya Chutkan in a position where she could not start a trial in a District of Columbia case before voters head to the polls, reported CNN.

“Meaning, ice her,” said a person familiar with Trump’s strategy. “Making it impossible for her to jam a trial down before the election, by things that are out of her control.”

Trump's legal team has openly stated they intend to play his cases off one another to create scheduling difficulties to delay his criminal trials, and his lawyers are hoping to convince Cannon to move the classified documents trial from its late May start date to summer.

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The ex-president has already asked both federal judges and a Georgia judge to delay his trials until after the November election, and while both Cannon and Chutkan have said no, multiple sources told CNN that his attorneys are hoping that a gradually shifting calendar might accomplish the same thing.

"[Chutkan] might have him on trial the day of the election," said one source familiar with the strategy. "If she wants to do that, we might as well just make Trump president right now."

Trump's lawyers may ask Cannon at a pretrial hearing Friday to pause his trial in Florida until July, according to sources, to block out his calendar until September, which his team believes would prevent Chutkan from scheduling the election subversion case once the U.S. Supreme Court decides on his immunity claims.

They could then ask Cannon again to push back the Mar-a-Lago trial due to the complexities related to classified materials.

Chutkan could still set a trial date that overlaps with other cases, but Trump could not be on trial simultaneously in separate courts because criminal defendants have the right to be present at their own trial.