On the obstruction of justice to public information in the U.S. Attorney’s Office investigation of Donald Trump’s campaign for hush money
In a court filing on Thursday, the District Attorney’s legal team said they wouldn’t oppose a delay to give Trump’s team enough time to look at the records.
They said in a filing that they don’t oppose an adjournment to give the defendants enough time to review the records obtained from federal prosecutors.
Bragg’s legal team said they would not object to the court giving Trump’s team 30 days to review 31,000 records provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
An indictment accuses Trump of lying to New York businesses in order to cover up evidence that helped him win the election. The trial is expected to last about six weeks — even as Trump campaigns to be president once again.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts. At the center of the trial is Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actor who was paid “hush money” by Donald Trump in order to prevent her from talking about a relationship she had with the president.
The fact of the payments and the false records isn’t in dispute. What Bragg has to prove is that Trump made them in order to further other crimes, such as violating campaign finance law and mischaracterizing the payments for tax purposes. Should the trial begin on time, a decision can be made in the summer.
In Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon refused to dismiss charges that Trump unlawfully withheld classified documents after leaving office. She has not set a date for trial. Prosecutors want it to begin in July, while Trump wants to wait until next year after the election.
In Georgia, the District Attorney for Fulton County was able to continue working on the case because of an attempt to remove her.
The fate of Trump’s cases at the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on the connection to anti-de Sitter attacks against the Kushush sedition
As for the other Trump cases, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on April 25 about whether the former president is immune from prosecution for events related to Jan. 6. The fate of his cases could be determined by the court’s decision there.