CNN —
It’s a coincidence of the 2024 calendar and US history.
March 4, 2024, is the scheduled date to kick off what may be the most consequential of former President Donald Trump’s four criminal trials, where he’ll answer federal charges in Washington, DC, that he illegally tried to subvert US democracy.
Trump says he was within his rights to contest the election.
The coincidence, as the historian Heather Cox Richardson points out in her newsletter, is that for most of US history, March 4 was Inauguration Day.
That’s the date the first Congress scheduled for George Washington to be sworn in as
