The former president’s criminal hush-money in New York trial will begin on April 15, Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Monday
Donald Trump‘s first criminal trial will begin on April 15.
Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Monday that the former president’s criminal hush-money trial will kick off next month. The ruling comes after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to delay the initial start date of March 25 so that his office could review new records from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Merchan rejected Trump’s latest push to delay the trial even further, while excoriating his team for making bogus allegations of misconduct against Bragg. “You are literally accusing the Manhattan DA’s office and the people assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and trying to make me complicit in it,” the judge said.
I never had faith that he’d get jail time. I once had faith that, the amount and bond being announced, he would pay, simply because the inertia of the legal system is often quite massive.
Not as massive as the vast wave of conservative corruption in this country, it would seem.
The criminal trial isn’t even worth getting worked up over in comparison. If he’s not going to be forced to pay a fine, he sure as fuck isn’t going to jail.