Judge Juan Merchan approved of Trump attorney Todd Blanche’s attendance at the interview, which is out of the ordinary, according to NBC andTrump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was found guilty after a weekslong trial in which prosecutors successfully argued that the former president covered up a 2016 hush money payment to hide an affair with adult film starManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought the charges against Trump, which he denied.
“President Trump and his legal team are already taking necessary steps to challenge and defeat the lawless Manhattan DA case,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a Saturday statement, according to CNN.— one over the mishandling of classified documents, another over federal election interference and a third over election interference in Georgia.