Trump seeks delay to Stormy Daniels hush money case as hearing begins

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The case is one of several legal travails Trump, 77, faces as he ramps up his 2024 campaign.
45% : Trump has sought delays in most cases, and successfully pushed back an early March start date to his federal trial in Washington, D.C., over the 2020 election efforts as he pursued an appeal on presidential immunity grounds.
42% : Prosecutors say the payoff to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was part of a broader "catch-and-kill" scheme Cohen and Trump hatched to boost his candidacy by buying the silence of people with damaging information.
34% : The documents came from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which previously investigated the payment but did not charge Trump.
29% : Cohen testified that Trump directed him to make the payment and went to prison after pleading guilty to violating campaign finance laws.
28% : By Luc CohenNEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) -Donald Trump appeared in a New York courtroom on Monday where his lawyers asked a judge to dismiss or delay his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
27% : Cohen made a $130,000 payment to silence adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she said they had a decade earlier - an encounter Trump denies.
23% : "On Monday morning, Trump said the case should be dismissed.
22% : Lawyers for Trump accuse Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which brought the criminal charges, of trying to bury documents that could help them challenge Cohen's credibility.
14% : Trump, the Republican candidate to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election, has pleaded not guilty and called the case a politically motivated "witch hunt.

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