Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president's lawyers, who argued he should be on the campaign trail rather than 'in a courtroom defending himself' starting next week.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president’s lawyers, who argued he should be on the campaign trail rather than “in a courtroom defending himself” starting next week.
“We’re here for this stay because there are restrictions in place that cannot operate in a constitutional way in a trial environment,” Trump lawyerTrump’s hush-money case is the first of his four criminal indictments slated to go to trial and would be the first criminal trial ever of a former president.rules on an immunity claim Trump raised in another of his criminal cases.
Trump is accused of falsifying his company’s records to hide the nature of payments to his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who helped Trump bury negative stories during his 2016 campaign. Cohen’s activities included paying porn actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 to suppress her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.
Trump contends he is immune from prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. His lawyers have not raised that as a defense in the hush-money case, but they argued that some evidence - including Trump’s social media posts about former lawyer Cohen - is from his time as president and should be excluded from the trial because of his immunity protections.
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