Judge declines to delay Trump’s NY hush money trial after Trump complains of pretrial publicity

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It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.

The judge in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case on Friday turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.

Prosecutors had objected to Trump's request. Like the judge, they said the publicity wasn’t likely to wane and that Trump’s own comments generated a lot of it. Prosecutors also noted that there are over 1 million people in Manhattan, arguing that jury questioning could surely locate 12 who could be impartial.Trump's lawyers had lobbed other, sometimes similar, arguments for delays at an appeals court this week.

 

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