Donald Trump on Monday morning is set to attend a New York court hearing where his lawyers will try to push off his trial date on charges of falsifying business records in a scheme to silence women who say they had affairs with him.
The hush money case was previously set for trial on Monday but postponed until at least mid-April after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he did not oppose a 30-day delay in order to give Trump time to review a tranche of recently submitted documents.
Trump’s attorneys have asked Judge Juan Merchan to either dismiss Bragg’s indictment entirely or delay the trial for at least 90 days.
Merchan is expected to set a new trial date during or following Monday’s proceedings in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The hearing comes as Trump faces a financial reckoning from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who, as soon as Monday, can start to collect on a $454 million fraud judgment against him in a separate civil case.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been unable to get a bond to stop that penalty from coming due while he appeals.
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