Trump judge sets March date for historic criminal trial in hush money case • FRANCE 24 English

It’s official Donald Trump will become the first ever former US president to stand trial under criminal law with his trial due to begin March 25th though the 77-year-old appeared in court to have the trial delayed or dismissed New York judge Juan merchin wasn’t convinced the trial would interfere with Trump’s

Presidential campaign something the Republican hopeful disagreed on we want delays obviously I’m running for election I can’t how can you run for election to be sitting in a courthouse in Manhattan all day long I shouldn’t be in a courthouse for something that virtually every legal scholar says they

Don’t understand it there’s no crime Trump will be defending himself against allegations that he falsified documents to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment he made to porn star stormmy Daniels in 2016 to silence the actress with whom he allegedly had an affair with a decade prior the judge’s ruling means Trump

Will stand trial in at least one of the four criminal cases he’s up against regardless of the verdict he isn’t prevented from running in the US presidential election or even taking office if elected

A New York judge on Thursday (February 15) rejected Donald Trump’s attempts to dismiss charges he covered up hush money payments to a porn star, setting the stage for the first criminal trial ever of a former US president to begin on March 25.
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8 comments

  2. trump is the most politically persecuted person. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. It shouldn't happen in a democracy and a rule of law society.

  4. The Islamic terrorists of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon must immediately lay down their arms and face justice, but they continue to commit crimes, as a result of which the war in the Middle East continues and people are dying. Given the spread of Islamism around the world, Islamic terrorism poses a global threat to Humanity.

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