NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer said Thursday the former president will seek to move his New York criminal case to federal court, attempting avoid a state court trial that a Manhattan judge said he expects to hold early next year.
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Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, said at a hearing on an unrelated issue in the case that Trump’s defense team plans to file a motion Thursday seeking to have the case transferred from state court to federal court.
Trump pleaded not guilty a month ago to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
Trump, a Republican, has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.
Moving the case to federal court could have significant advantage for Trump, including broadening the potential jury pool beyond Manhattan, where voters have heavily favored his Democratic rivals.
Which Criminal Case? There are so many against this am horetz goniff. Oy. We can’t keep track without a spreadsheet.
Trump will prevail
I am sure our legal counsel like Phineas can weigh in. But the request seems reasonable as he can’t have a fair trial in NYC.
More generally we should change the law so that anyone who runs for federal office is only subject to fedral rules and prosecution. its only fair since the alleged hush money wasn’t a unqiue crime for NYC more than for Texas.