Special counsel Jack Smith has proposed a new trial date for the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against former President Donald Trump: July 8. This comes as District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who has become controversial for a series of rulings unusually favorable to the former president, is set to hear arguments about revising the trial schedule, which was originally set for May but is widely believed to be all but certain to be pushed back. Trump’s lawyers, meanwhile, who have repeatedly argued the trial should wait until after the election, have instead suggested a date o…