Judge Juan Merchan sets April 15 trial date for Trump hush money case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump, speaking to press in the hall, lauded the decision as proof the judge in the case erred in issuing the original judgement.
53% : Trump attended the hearing, and blasted the new trial date as "election interference" afterward.
42% : Cohen claimed that Trump directed him to pay $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
25% : Monday's hearing in the hush money case came the same day as a deadline for Trump to pay more than $450 million for bond in the New York civil fraud case against him.
21% : Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges in the hush money case and continues to deny having a sexual encounter with Daniels.
21% : "in 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges, including making secret payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump, making false claims before Congress about the then-president's business dealings with Russia and failing to report millions of dollars in income.
18% : Trump looked angry as he exited the courtroom during a break ahead of Merchan's ruling.
16% : Merchan said Trump's attorneys were characterizing the DA's office as not having done anything in terms of obtaining information while he interpreted what prosecutors have done as going "above and beyond" what the needed to do.Bragg has alleged that Trump had fraudulently altered business records related to hush money payments that he signed off on.
13% : Daniels maintains that she had an affair with Trump in 2006, following his marriage to Melania Trump.

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