Trump Files Appeal in Hush Money Criminal Case a Week Before Trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : New York state court records showed that Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency this year, filed the notice with a mid-level state appeals court known as the Appellate Division, but the underlying documents were not yet public.
38% : The New York Times and CNN said the appeal would challenge a gag order by Justice Juan Merchan blocking Trump from speaking publicly about potential witnesses, court staff, individual prosecutors and family members of the judge and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the charges.
35% : Trump has denied any such encounter with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
32% : NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Monday filed a notice of appeal in the former U.S. president's New York criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star - a last-ditch effort to delay his scheduled April 15 trial.
29% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
27% : Trump, the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 U.S. election, has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
16% : Merchan imposed the order after finding that some of Trump's statements were threatening, and expanded it to cover the family members after Trump disparaged the judge's daughter online.
5% : Trump is accused of covering up his former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence before the 2016 presidential election about a sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump a decade earlier.

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