Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, has given him precisely what he has wanted in the form of a delay to his classified documents trial.

On Monday the judge gave a temporary stay to the May 9 deadline for the former president and two of his codefendants to submit filings,” Newsweek reported.

“It relates to Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), which would disclose what sensitive materials Trump intends to use at the trial,” the report said.

“Trump has pleaded not guilty to 40 federal charges concerning allegations he illegally retained classified materials after he left the White House in January 2021, and then obstructed the federal attempt to retrieve them,” it said.

The current start date for the trial is May 20, but that appears to be in jeopardy as Judge Cannon has not given a new date for the former president to submit his CIPA-related documents, which increases the chances that the trial is not going to happen before the 2024 presidential election.

If he becomes the president in November he could have the Department of Justice end the case against him.

“Cannon submitted court filings on Monday ‘temporarily staying’ the CIPA request regarding what classified materials the defendants intend to use in the trial and what expert witnesses Trump’s legal team intends to call at the trial in Florida,” Newsweek said.

“Cannon did not offer any explanation as to why the May 9 CIPA deadline has been indefinitely postponed, only stating that an ‘order setting second set of pretrial deadlines/hearings to follow,’” it said.

The special prosecutor himself has run into a snag in the case.

Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett said that he believes Smith has been caught misleading the judge in the classified documents case against former President Trump.

On Friday in a filing to Judge Cannon, that evidence in the case had not been properly maintained after the raid on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

“Prosecutors have a duty to preserve evidence, Larry, exactly as it is seized,” the legal analyst said to Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. “Jack Smith’s special counsel admits now in court documents altering, manipulating evidence against Trump. The digital scan of documents doesn’t match the physical order in the boxes that were seized.”

“And Smith got caught,” he said. “His excuse, ‘well, your honor it is a complicated case, lots of documents,’ that is not an excuse. This is evidence tampering. It is destroying exculpatory evidence and even worse, Smith lied to the court and he was forced to admit it although he did so in a footnote, ‘gee, I misled the judge.’ This is no small matter, Larry.”