Trump's request for further delay in 'hush money' trial is rejected.
Jury selection to begin April 15.
And by 'hush money', we really mean election interference.
I hear the walls are closing in...
election interference? so you admit the election was hijacked?
It is not as simple as you make it out to be. https://www.justsecurity.org/93876/trump-hush-money-charges/
“The core is not money for sex,” Bragg told a local NPR affiliate late last year. “We would say it’s about conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business records to cover it up.”share
Since that time, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan issued multiple rulings reinforcing that framing. The judge called the charges “serious” and refused every effort by Trump to keep federal and state election law out of the case. Though Trump is not technically charged with election interference — a federal statute distinct from the one he’s accused of violating — the main theories of the case behind all 34 counts ask jurors to find a plot to deceive voters in New York and nationally. The phrase “hush money” obscures the byzantine system through which Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen transmitted the payments and the former president reimbursed him over the course of nearly a year.
Obtaining a home equity loan from First Republic Bank, Cohen funneled $130,000 through his shell company Essential Consultants LLC to attorney Keith Davidson, Daniels’ lawyer at the time, who then compensated her. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, Cohen also hired the IT firm RedFinch Solutions to rig online polls in Trump’s favor: promising to pay $50,000, then ultimately stiffing the company.
The Rube Goldberg-like system sparked dozens of criminal charges because it operated on reams of allegedly falsified business records describing them as compensation for “legal services” — each one, prosecutors say, a crime that misled the voting public and tax authorities.