A New York appeals cour rejected Wednesday former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his hush money criminal trial.
Despite the Trump teams’ efforts to halt the case indefinitely and challenge the trial judge’s pretrial rulings, the trial is now scheduled to proceed as planned on Monday.
The hush money case against Donald Trump is the first of his four criminal indictments that is set to go to trial.
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It is a historic event as it marks the first criminal trial ever of a former president.
The case revolves around allegations that Trump falsified his company’s records to conceal payments made to his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.
These payments were made to bury negative stories that could have impacted Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, including the payment of $130,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels to suppress her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump.
Trump’s lawyers have made multiple attempts to delay the trial, arguing that they need more time to challenge the trial judge’s rulings and remove him from the case. They claimed that the judge exceeded his authority and hindered Trump’s defense by refusing to postpone the trial until the Supreme Court rules on an immunity claim raised by Trump in another criminal case.
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They argued that evidence in the hush money case could be excluded if the Supreme Court rules in Trump’s favor. However, the judge declared their request untimely, stating that they had ample opportunities to raise the immunity issue earlier.
The New York appeals court judge rejected Trump’s appeal to delay the trial, stating that staying the trial at this point would be incredibly disruptive.
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