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The hush-money case will be Donald Trump’s first criminal case to go to trial.Credit…Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times
Trump’s hush-money trial to begin next month
A New York judge yesterday set a March 25 trial date for Donald Trump’s hush-money case, clearing the way for the first prosecution of a former American president and ensuring that Trump will face at least one jury before Election Day.
The judge rejected Trump’s bid to throw out the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal charges against him, which stem from a hush-money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
It will be Trump’s first criminal case to go to trial, and it might not be the last: He is facing 91 felony counts across four criminal indictments in Washington, D.C., Florida and Georgia, as well as Manhattan.
Unlike the federal cases in Washington and Florida, the case in Manhattan is insulated from federal intervention, so Trump would not be able to pardon himself or otherwise use the presidency as a legal shield.
Washington: The trial date in Manhattan leaves the door open for Trump’s Washington trial to take place in the late spring or early summer, once the Supreme Court decides its fate.
Georgia: At a hearing for the Georgia case on Thursday, defense lawyers argued that the district attorney leading the prosecution should be removed because she benefited financially from a relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
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