Donald Trump requested this Monday, March 11, a postponement of his first criminal trial, which is supposed to open in New York on March 25. This concerns his indictment in the affair of campaign money paid to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels. The former president’s lawyers believe that this trial cannot begin until the Supreme Court has ruled on his request for immunity.
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With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson
Among the four criminal trials who threaten Donald Trumpit’s the only one that hasn’t yet been delayed, and its lawyers have just filed a motion with a Manhattan judge to postpone it sine die.
The Trump campaign is doing everything to ensure that no trial begins before the presidential election. Their argument is simple: this case linked to the $130,000 paid to buy the silence of a porn actress cannot begin until the Supreme Court has ruled on the presidential immunity that Donald Trump is claiming.
Total immunity?
The former president has already used this argument to delay his main trial. That for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, the date of which is also suspended from this decision of the Supreme Court. Donald Trump believes he would benefit from total immunity for all his acts as president. A first appeals court has already rejected this argument.
But the Supreme Court has decided to study it and its hearings do not open before April 25, that is to say one month to the day after the date on which the Manhattan trial set to begin. The judge is expected to announce within the week whether or not he accepts the postponement request.
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