NY District Attorney Won’t Object to Trump’s Request for 30-Day Trial Delay

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed court documents Thursday saying his office does not oppose former President Donald Trump’s request to delay the Stormy Daniels hush money trial, according to a report by NBC News.

Trump was set to face the hush money trial beginning March 25. Bragg’s filing said his office did not object to a 30-day delay.

Trump has been charged with falsifying business records for $130,000 hush money reimbursements he paid to former attorney Michael Cohen, who originally paid adult actress Stormy Daniels to remain quiet.

Bragg wrote, “although the People are prepared to proceed to trial on March 25, we do not oppose an adjournment in an abundance of caution and to ensure that defendant has sufficient time to review the new materials.”

Trump’s team had requested a 90-day delay to review some 73,000 pages of discovery sent by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan. Bragg has said that only 172 pages of witness statements are relevant to the case, according to NBC News.

Trump filed the request earlier this month:

President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this motion (1) for an adjournment of the trial pending review of the scope of the presidential immunity doctrine in Trump v. United States, which the Supreme Court agreed to hear on February 28, 2024, and is scheduled to be argued before the Court on April 25, 2024; and (2) to preclude evidence of President Trump’s official acts at trial based on presidential immunity.

However, any delay will be considered a win for Trump, who has been pushing for delays on all four of his criminal cases.

This is a breaking story and has been updated.