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.
“We strenuously object to what is happening in this courtroom,” he told the judge. “That President Trump is now going to spend the next two months working on this trial instead of” being out there campaigning for president “is something that shouldn’t happen in this country.”
“What is your legal argument?” Judge Marchan asked.
“That is my legal argument,” Blanche replied.
“That’s not a legal argument,” Merchan said. “See you all on March 25.”
Ice cold.
“That is my legal argument,” Blanche replied.
People are saying he only hires the best lawyers. Well let me tell you that nobody hires better lawyers than Trump.
I like this judge
“Completely inappropriate,” Blanche said. “Over half the population of this country believe the election was stolen. This trial is not going to solve that.”
That’s a lie. I don’t think at any time a poll showed >50% believed the election was stolen. The most recent ones I can find show somewhere in the 30-40% range. It’s still a ridiculously high number, but it’s nowhere near “over half”.
Not to mention that the trial has no bearing on what the public believes. It’s a manner of fact and justice.
He meant over half of Republicans. The rest of the population doesn’t count.
“Stop breaking the law, asshole!”
Your honor, these chickens can’t come home to roost all at once!
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.
