Judge shoots down Trump's motion to delay start of hush money trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In a post to social media made in 2018, Trump referred to the payment to Daniels as a "simple private transaction," claiming, "there was no violation based on what we did."
38% : On Monday, attorneys for Donald Trump filed a motion to delay the start of the former president's New York criminal trial pending the Supreme Court's ruling on his claim of presidential immunity, further claiming that he can't have a fair trial due to "pervasive pre-trial publicity," asking for the hush money case to be canceled altogether or be subject to "a significant adjournment.
29% : "Originally scheduled to begin on March 25 and then pushed to April 15 due to a dump of new documents being presented by federal prosecutors, the trial seeks to put an end to discourse over payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, which Trump pushed off on Michael Cohen.

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