In a filing on Thursday, the special counsel's office proposed a trial date of January 2, 2024, which they say would take "no longer than four to six weeks."

Should U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya approve that date, Trump's trial could be done and dusted before the GOP's primaries in South Carolina and Michigan, with plenty of time before the delegate-rich slate of Super Tuesday states in March.