CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.
CNN
—
Donald Trump acquired each a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the primary legal trial of a former president in US historical past, a pair of rulings that hit residence the authorized whiplash continually surrounding him.
The dual rulings Monday, which got here roughly inside an hour of one another, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s picture and his famed enterprise empire as he seeks a second time period within the White Home.
Trump’s historic legal trial within the New York hush cash case in opposition to him will start with jury choice on April 15, Choose Juan Merchan mentioned Monday, after a dispute over the late manufacturing of paperwork brought about the decide initially to push again the beginning date.
For Trump, nonetheless, the extra important ruling Monday might have been a New York appeals court docket permitting him to put up a lowered $175 million bond as he appeals the $464 million New York civil fraud judgment in opposition to him, his grownup sons and his firm. Trump instructed reporters he’ll cowl the bond utilizing money as a collateral.
Listed below are the takeaways from one other historic day for Trump:
Barring one other unexpected hiccup, by no means one thing to rule out when Trump is concerned, the previous president will face a jury on legal expenses for a minimum of one in every of his trials earlier than the November election
Monday’s listening to was to think about Trump’s movement to dismiss the costs and sanction the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace after the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York turned over tens of 1000’s of paperwork earlier this month associated to the 2018 federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.
Earlier than midday, Merchan had already dismissed the allegations from Trump’s attorneys, ruling there have been no violations and that the trial will start with jury choice on April 15.
Trump was charged by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information stemming from reimbursements to Cohen for hush cash funds he made earlier than the 2016 election to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels to maintain her from going public about an alleged affair with Trump. The previous president has pleaded not responsible and denied the affair.
The date is three weeks later than initially scheduled, however the delay gained’t make a lot of a dent on Trump’s 2024 calendar – and it’s nonetheless murky whether or not any of his different three trials will occur earlier than the election.
Choose will get pissed off with Trump’s attorneys. Hear what occurred in court docket
Trump’s legal professionals mentioned final week that he was unable to put up a $464 million bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement in opposition to him. Trump confronted a Monday deadline to put up bond or else New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James may have begun the method of seizing his property.
However the appeals court docket ruling gave Trump a further 10 days to put up a bond of $175 million, a quantity the previous president mentioned he would have the ability to provide you with.
Trump already posted a $91 million bond this month whereas he appeals the defamation judgment in opposition to him within the case introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
The ruling is a serious victory for Trump, staving off the prospect, for now, of James in search of to grab the previous president’s property to implement the judgement in opposition to him.
As soon as Trump posts the $175 million bond, enforcement of the civil fraud judgment in opposition to the previous president, his sons and their firm is paused till a minimum of September.
The ruling ordered the 2 sides to organize briefs for oral argument by then in a New York appellate court docket.
Trump didn’t communicate contained in the courtroom Wednesday, however he nonetheless had loads of possibilities to make his views of Monday’s developments recognized.
The previous president reacted to the lowered bond first in entrance of the cameras within the hallway of the courthouse after which at a information convention at 40 Wall Avenue – one of many buildings that might have been threatened had he did not put up bond to enchantment the civil fraud judgement.
“Will probably be my honor to put up,” Trump mentioned, including he’ll put up “no matter is important, whether or not or not it’s money, or safety or bonds.”
When questioned by a reporter, Trump then mentioned he’ll use money for collateral.
At his information convention, the previous president additionally railed in opposition to the plan to begin his legal trial subsequent month.
“You might have a case which … they’re dying to get this factor began. The decide can’t go quicker. He needs to get it began so badly,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s legal professionals have sought to delay all 4 of his legal trials to push them previous the election. Within the different three, he might but achieve success, although the New York trial is now set to start in three weeks.
Throughout Monday’s listening to, Merchan discredited Trump’s allegations of misconduct in opposition to the district legal professional’s workplace, discovering that prosecutors cooperated within the effort to safe paperwork from the US Legal professional’s Workplace of the Southern District of New York.
“It’s odd that we’re even right here,” Merchan mentioned at one level.
The decide repeatedly mentioned how severe and regarding Trump’s allegations had been in opposition to Manhattan prosecutors, at one level elevating his voice on the bench.
“You’re actually accusing the Manhattan DA’s workplace and the individuals assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of attempting to make me complicit in it and also you don’t have a single cite to help that place?” Merchan mentioned.
Merchan discovered it “actually disconcerting” that Trump’s legal professionals would accuse Bragg’s workplace of prosecutorial misconduct with out having case regulation to help their argument that the district legal professional had an obligation to acquire paperwork from the US legal professional’s workplace and the FBI.
Merchan additionally lectured Trump’s legal professional, Todd Blanche — who labored within the US legal professional’s workplace for 13 years — for not making the request quickly after the federal company’s doc manufacturing within the case final summer time.
The decide ultimately dominated that the district legal professional’s workplace was not at fault for the late disclosure from federal prosecutors and decided that prosecutors made a diligent, good-faith effort to acquire all accessible discoverable data from the federal prosecutors.
Trump snaps at reporter over marketing campaign funding query. Listed below are the details
Trump has tried to delay all 4 legal trials till after November’s election — within the occasion they aren’t dismissed totally.
Instantly after Merchan’s resolution to begin the hush cash trial subsequent month, Trump’s attorneys sought one other technique to push again the beginning of the trial.
Blanche requested to file a movement in search of to delay the trial due to pretrial publicity. Trump’s attorneys have argued {that a} current documentary about Daniels and the fallout from the hush cash cost being made public prejudiced the jury pool, and that the case is going down so near the 2024 election.
The district legal professional’s workplace responded by arguing that pretrial publicity “has been brought about and exacerbated by the defendant.”
Merchan was clearly skeptical of the declare, asking what had modified since February, when he initially set the trial date for March 25 and rejected related arguments. However Merchan mentioned he would let Blanche file the movement, asking how rapidly it could possibly be filed.
Merchan didn’t appear inclined to assume it will change the trial date, nonetheless.
“See you all on the fifteenth,” he mentioned.