NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s judge hush money criminal case On Friday, it rejected the former president’s request to postpone the trial due to the publicity of the case.
This is the latest in a series of delay denials that President Trump has obtained from various courts this week as he struggles to stop the delay. The trial begins Monday and a jury will be selected..
Among other things, Trump’s lawyers argued that jurors were bombarded with what the defense considered “extremely biased” coverage of the case. The defense argued that was reason to postpone the case indefinitely.
Judge Juan M. Marchan called that idea “untenable.”
President Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pretrial publicity will never subside. But this view does not correspond to reality,” the judges wrote. .
He said questioning of prospective jurors addresses concerns about their ability to be fair and impartial.
