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The most likely Republican candidate for the US presidency, former White House chief of staff Donald Trump, will be in trouble. The Court of Appeals in New York on Wednesday rejected his third attempt to postpone the trial regarding the payment to porn actress Stephanie Clifford. According to the AP agency, the trial should begin next week. What this will do to Trump’s preferences, or even to the very possibility of running for office, no one knows.
Trump’s legal team has requested that the trial be delayed indefinitely. At the same time, he is seeking to prevent Judge Juan Merchan from ruling in Trump’s cases, and they are challenging several of his pretrial decisions. Judge Ellen Gesmer denied the postponement after several minutes of deliberations on Thursday, CNN writes. The main trial is scheduled to begin on April 15 with jury selection.
Trump, who wants to run for president again this year, faces charges of falsifying financial records. He did this in an attempt to hide payments to Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, to keep her quiet about their affair, according to the indictment. The defense denies this.
Last week, a New York court rejected another Trump request to delay the trial. The lawyers in it wanted to ensure that the main trial begins only after the Supreme Court decides in another case in the dispute about presidential immunity. On Monday, an appeals court in New York rejected efforts by Trump’s team to move the trial from Manhattan to another location and postpone it indefinitely.
According to the American media, of the series of Trump lawsuits, the one regarding the payment to Clifford could be the only one that will go to trial before the November presidential election.
In his statements, Trump often mentions the current head of the White House and his almost certain opponent in the November election race, Joe Biden. In March, he referred to the court’s decision to begin the trial as a “Biden trial,” implying without any evidence that the current administration was interfering with active cases in the U.S. justice system.
Asked by CNN if he was concerned that a possible conviction could hurt him in the election, Trump said in March that it “might make him more popular” because he said people knew it was “fraud” and in the main trial “he will have no problem testifying”. Now, not even after a month, he is trying to postpone the process until after the elections, which after all testifies to certain problems he fears.
