By Michael R. Sisak, Associated PressJudge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, Thursday, March 14, 2024.
The trial is scheduled to begin April 15. It is the first of Trump’s four criminal cases scheduled to go to trial and would be the first-ever criminal trial of a former president. Loren Merchan is president of Authentic Campaigns, which has collected at least $70 million in payments from Democratic candidates and causes since she helped found the company in 2018, records show.
The hush money case centers on allegations that Trump falsified his company’s records to hide the nature of payments to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who helped Trump bury negative stories during his 2016 campaign. Among other things, Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 to suppress her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.
Trump suggested, without evidence, that Merchan’s rulings — including his decision to impose a gag order on Trump — were swayed by his daughter’s consulting interests. He wrongly claimed that she had posted a social media photo showing him behind bars. Trump’s attacks on Lauren Merchan led the judge to expand the gag order to prohibit him from making public statements about his family.
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