Judge Juan Merchan announced this on Monday, April 15 The criminal trial of former President Donald Trump will begin (2017-2021) in New York by 34 crimes relating to irregular payments a a porn actress in 2016, a trial scheduled for this Monday. Trump attended the hearing in person, dressed in a blue suit and red tie, from which he once again repeated to the press that his various trials in New York They are a witch hunt by the Democrats.
“This is election interference and This should not be allowed to happen.“Noted Trump, who will be the first former president in the country’s history to face a criminal trial.
The Republican presidential candidate pointed out that this case could have been filed three and a half years ago but “They decided to wait nowright during the elections, so that he cannot campaign“.
The former president’s defense wanted the judge to further delay the trial.
Trump attended the hearing in person, dressed in a blue suit and red tie. Photo: EFEOn March 15, Merchan, who was born in Colombia and came to the United States at age 6, postponed his trial scheduled for this Monday with jury selection for 30 days.
Both the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office, which is prosecuting the case, and Trump’s defense, They were in favor of the postponement dadaist the large number of documents provided by federal authorities this month.
Trump’s lawyers had previously argued that the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office had violated the rules governing the analysis and selection of evidence and therefore had requested the dismissal of the entire indictment or, alternatively, the exclusion of some testimonies and the postponement of the trial for at least 90 days.
At the same time, this same Monday a New York appeals court allowed the former president to pay a lower bail than originally set in a civil fraud case.
The former president He will now have to pay a bail of 175 million dollars in ten days (instead of 464 million), while the appeal for the sentence requiring him to pay 454 million dollars is resolved.
It’s a major lifeline for the former president, who, along with some of his children and his company, was fined after Judge Arthur Engoron noted that Trump and the other defendants had fraudulently inflated the value of their assets.
Source: Clarin
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