Trump Trial Delays Cast Doubt on Verdicts Before Election

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(Bloomberg) -- A likely delay in Donald Trumps hush money trial is the latest complication of prosecutors efforts to try his other criminal cases before Nov..

The March 25 New York state trial over whether Trump falsified business records for a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election may be delayed by as few as 30 days..

Meanwhile, a federal trial over Trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election that was supposed to start earlier this month was put on hold to give the US Supreme Court time to weigh his claim to that former presidents are immune to criminal charges..

In the hush money case, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the first prosecutor to charge Trump with a crime, said in a court filing Thursday that he would be open to a 30-day delay because his office had just received some 31,000 pages of records from the US Attorneys Office tied to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who is expected to be the governments star witness at trial..

Trump asked for a 90-day delay, citing 73,000 pages of new records from the Cohen case produced by federal prosecutors since March 4, a late production of evidence that the defense claims was intentional..

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