Mary Trump: Donald Trump's 'Worst Nightmare' Just Came True [View all]
Donald Trump may be seeing his "worst nightmare" come true after the date was confirmed for his falsifying business records trial in New York, according to his niece.
Mary Trump, author, podcast host and frequent critic of her uncle, was reacting to Judge Juan Merchan setting an April 15 date for the trial where the former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to so-called "hush money" he arranged his former lawyer Michael Cohen to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair she and Trump had a secret ahead of the 2016 election.
The trial was originally due to begin on March 25, but Merchan postponed it so both parties could sort through more than 100,000 pages of evidence that federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York had turned over just days before proceedings were scheduled to start. During a Monday hearing, Trump's lawyers tried to argue that the New York trial should be delayed further, or thrown out altogether while accusing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office of misconduct for allegedly withholding documents. The claims were rejected by Merchan, who scolded Trump's legal team for not backing up their allegations with evidence.
In a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter, Mary Trump said that the April 15 trial date means the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate could be a convicted criminal before November's election, which could severely hinder his hopes of beating Joe Biden.
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