This eleventh-hour effort to push back Trump's April 15 trial date is the latest of a half-dozen such requests since August.
Bad polls, bad pressManhattan is not Trump country, the defense delay motion notes.
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Trump's motion implies that those sources were, or involved, Bragg, ignoring that the stories could have been sourced through multiple other individuals, including court staff, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses.
Advertisement"President Trump cannot get a fair trial in Manhattan County right now," the delay motion concludes, asking for unspecified adjournment "until prejudicial press coverage abates."
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