New York Judge Juan Merchan approved a request to delay former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial by 30 days on Friday, meaning the trial is now expected to begin in the middle of April.
Trump’s lawyers initially requested a 90-day delay after they were given thousands of pages of new documents from federal prosecutors, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he and his team of prosecutors were OK with a 30-day delay instead.
The new documents are related to Michael Cohen’s guilty plea to multiple criminal charges in 2018, including charges that he paid hush money to multiple women who claim they have had an affair with Trump.
Bragg claimed on Thursday that the new documents are “largely irrelevant to the
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