The criminal trial is currently scheduled to start on March 25.
The judge in former President Trump’s criminal hush money case in New York City says Trump’s trial will proceed on March 25 as planned.
In the case’s final hearing before the trial gets underway, Judge Juan Merchan began the proceedings Thursday by denying Trump’s motion to dismiss the case, saying the trial would begin March 25 with jury selection.
With Trump in the courtroom, his attorney Todd Blanche responded by arguing for a delay, saying Merchan was putting the former president “in an impossible position” by scheduling a trial in the midst of a series of “compressed and expedited schedules” elsewhere in the country, citing Trump’s criminal cases in Washington, Georgia and Florida.
So he’s finally going to trial for something he did to win his first election. As an outsider, allowing individual-1 to not be prosecuted for an act that was to help him win the presidency was a mockery of a democracy’s justice system. We all learned a lesson, if you cheat well enough, even if your fixer gets caught and you’re all but named in his indictment, you still win in the United States. Probably a few other countries, I don’t know any offhand, but few others get the Hollywood treatment as the bastion of democracy. Maybe not as much lately but Im middle aged and so much 90s was how the US rocked for democracy.
Unless this is about something else but it appeared to be (part of?) what Cohen went to jail and served his time for.