What a great legal argument: "At a hearing in Manhattan, Donald Trump’s defense lawyers argued that the case will interfere with his presidential campaign"
It amounts to an acknowledgement from Trump, that he and his team believe he is special; Citizen Trump is above the law; Criminal Defendant Trump is to be treated differently than any other average citizen, who has been investigated and indicted - recommended by an American jury.
Defense attorney Todd Blanche pleaded "We have been faced with extremely compressed and expedited schedules in each and every one of those trials...It’s truly an impossible position for any person to be in.”
Then reality set in: New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan told Blanche "Judges in the Trump cases simply could not wait around to see what other courts might or might not do, and said it was time to move forward. The judge showed little patience for Blanche’s arguments, saying he’d heard most of them before and found them lacking."
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Trump’s first criminal trial set for March in N.Y. on hush money charges
It amounts to an acknowledgement from Trump, that he and his team believe he is special; Citizen Trump is above the law; Criminal Defendant Trump is to be treated differently than any other average citizen, who has been investigated and indicted - recommended by an American jury.
Defense attorney Todd Blanche pleaded "We have been faced with extremely compressed and expedited schedules in each and every one of those trials...It’s truly an impossible position for any person to be in.”
Then reality set in: New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan told Blanche "Judges in the Trump cases simply could not wait around to see what other courts might or might not do, and said it was time to move forward. The judge showed little patience for Blanche’s arguments, saying he’d heard most of them before and found them lacking."
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Trump’s first criminal trial set for March in N.Y. on hush money charges
NEW YORK — A judge ruled Thursday that jury selection for Donald Trump’s hush money trial would begin March 25, setting a date with history for what would be the first criminal prosecution of an ex-president — one who also leads the Republican field of 2024 candidates for the White House.
Trump watched impassively from a defense table in Manhattan criminal court as New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he will go forward with the trial on charges that Trump falsified business records during the heat of the 2016 political campaign to keep secret a past sexual liaison with an adult-film star. The judge said he expects the trial to take about six weeks.
Under that schedule, in which the trial would stretch from late March to early May, this spring’s presidential nominating season will bounce between primaries around the country and a high-profile criminal trial about an alleged coverup that prosecutors say broke financial laws.