Trump hush money case delay effort 'dead loser from the get-go': CNN legal analyst
Former White House ethics head Norm Eisen criticized a failed effort by former President Trump to delay his New York hush money case.
“It was a dead loser from the get-go,” Eisen said Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with host Wolf Blitzer, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
That same day, an appeals court in the Empire State shot down a bid by the former president to pause the hush money trial on the argument that it should be tried outside of Manhattan.
The court’s decision followed an emergency hearing that featured arguments from Trump’s lawyers in which they claimed that Manhattan, which is heavily Democratic in its party affiliation, is not the place for the case to be heard. Rather, the former president’s lawyers suggested the trial should happen on the redder Staten Island, where Trump won in 2016 and in 2020.
Eisen also noted a questionnaire for jury selection in the hush money case, saying that is how bias can be filtered out instead of the case being moved. He also said “of course” Trump would go through with the bid to delay the hush money trial.
“By my count, it’s his ninth delay tactic, Wolf, because he's very nervous about facing a jury on these allegations of election interference,” Eisen continued.
Trump's hush money case, in which he is facing 34 counts of falsifying business records, is set to go to trial next week. The 34 counts come in relation to hush money payments made by his former lawyer Michael Cohen to porn actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair prior to the 2016 election. The former president has pleaded not guilty.
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