The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money criminal case rejected the former U.S. president's bid to delay Monday's scheduled trial on the ground that substantial pre-trial publicity would make the proceedings unfair. Trump had sought an indefinite delay, saying media coverage was prejudiced against him, and finding an acceptable jury in Manhattan would be tough because the borough was "overwhelmingly biased" against him. But in a decision on Friday, Justice Juan Merchan said an indefinite adjournment was "not tenable."
NEW YORK — Denying yet another bid by Donald Trump to delay his pending trial, Judge Juan Merchan said on Friday that the former president personally generated “much, if not most,” of the media circus he complains about. Merchan agreed with prosecutors’ arguments opposing Trump’s request for an indefinite delay because of intense media coverage, writing that the situation “is not new to him .
Donald Trump’s latest longshot bid to delay his impending trial centering on a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels was denied by an appeals court judge in New York on Monday, a week out from the expected start of jury selection. The ruling by Justice Lizbeth González came down after lawyers for the former president asked the mid-level state appeals court for an indefinite delay so .
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