Trump is trying everything he can to delay this month’s hush money criminal trial
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Donald Trump’s lawyers are still pursuing multiple avenues to try to delay the start of the former president’s New York hush money trial that begins April 15, although none of them have much of a chance of succeeding.
Donald Trump’s lawyers are still pursuing multiple avenues to try to delay the start of the president’s criminal New York hush money trial that begins April 15, although none of them have much of a chance of succeeding. Trump’s attorneys have filed a motion to postpone the criminal trial because of the publicity surrounding it – a request already been rejected by Judge Juan Merchan previously. The former president also renewed a request this week for Merchan to recuse himself because of his daughter’s political work for Democratic politicians. Merchan dismissed that request last year, too. For months now, Trump’s team has pushed for a delay of the New York trial on a number of fronts, as part of the former president’s broader strategy of trying to push back all of his trials until after the 2024 election. Trump’s motions to recuse and postpone the trial are two of several outstanding issues that Merchan still needs to decide on before the trial starts on April 15. Merchan appears unlikely to be swayed on any of those fronts to push back the trial further – though the judge did delay the trial last month for three weeks after a late production of discovery documents.
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