The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has rejected his bid to postpone the trial on the grounds of prejudicial pretrial publicity.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said in an April 12 order and decision that he was denying President Trump’s request in part because it amounted to an untenable demand for indefinite adjournment and in part because the publicity surrounding the trial was in some measure of his own making.
President Trump sought an adjournment of the trial, currently scheduled for April 15, in light of what his attorneys described in a March 18 court filing as “exceptionally prejudicial pretrial publicity, which is substantial, ongoing, and likely to increase.”…
