Judge Blocks Trump's Fourth Bid to Delay Hush Money Trial, According to Report

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 Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money case, denied the former president’s request to delay the trial Friday, according to the Associated Press, marking the fourth unsuccessful delay attempt by Trump as the trial is slated to start Monday.


Trump’s attorneys argued in their request for delay that the jury pool was subject to what the lawyers saw as “exceptionally prejudicial” news coverage of the hush money case, the AP reported.

Merchan denied the request, saying the attorneys’ argument was “not tenable” and Trump’s view “does not align with reality,” according to the AP.

Trump’s third request for delay was denied by Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer two days ago, when the former president’s defense unsuccessfully argued Merchan was operating “under an appearance of impropriety.”

Trump’s second request to delay the trial was made while he appealed a gag order against him in the case, which his defense claimed amounted to an unconstitutional effort stopping Trump from responding to his critics—it was denied Tuesday.

The former president’s initial delay request, denied Monday, was made as his attorneys attempted to move the trial venue out of Manhattan, citing a survey of Manhattan residents commissioned by the defense that found 61% of respondents believed Trump was guilty in the hush money case.

Jury selection for the trial is scheduled for Monday with the trial expected to last roughly six weeks.

Trump faces 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business records in relation to what prosecutors claim were reimbursement payments he provided to ex-attorney Michael Cohen after the lawyer paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to allegedly cover up an affair she claimed to have with Trump. The former president allegedly misidentified the payments as being for legal services. The maximum sentence for all Trump’s charges in the hush money case total to 136 years in prison and a $170,000 fine if he’s convicted of all counts, though such a sentence is unlikely if he is convicted.


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