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NEW YORK -- Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president's lawyers, who argued he should be on the campaign trail rather than "in a courtroom defending himself" starting next week.
The former president's estranged niece outlined a "turn of events that could only be described as a comedy of errors."
Donald Trump failed — for the third day in a row on Wednesday — to convince a New York appeals court to halt his hush money trial from beginning next week. Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer rejected the former president’s latest emergency request for a delay less than 30 minutes after hearing from his legal team and lawyers for the Manhattan district attorney. Trump’s appeal lawyer, Emil Bove, ...
Trump’s lawyers had asked the state’s mid-level appeals court to halt the case indefinitely while they fight to remove the trial judge and challenge several of his pretrial rulings.
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For the third straight day, a New York appeals court has rejected an attempt by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay the former president’s hush money criminal trial