Judge weighs when, or if, Trump will go on trial in hush money case delayed over documents dump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump is charged with falsifying business records.
44% : The defense argues that prosecutors should have pursued all the records but instead stuck their heads in the sand, hoping to keep information from Trump.
42% : Before Trump appeared in court for the hearing, he told reporters in the hallway: "This is a witch hunt.
35% : Cohen is now a key witness in Manhattan prosecutors' case against Trump.
33% : The hearing was being held on a uniquely consequential day for Trump and his legal and political affairs as, besides a likely determination of a trial date, the former president could also find out Monday how New York state aims to collect over $457 million he owes in his civil business fraud case.
29% : The hush money case, filed last year by prosecutors in Manhattan, has taken on added importance given that it's the only one of the prosecutions against Trump that appears likely for trial in the coming months.
28% : The simmering documents dispute is significant to the extent it results in a meaningful delay to the trial, which centers on years-old allegations that Trump arranged a payment to a porn actor during his 2016 presidential campaign to suppress claims of an extramarital affair.
28% : The case centers on allegations that Trump falsely logged $130,000 in payments as legal fees in his company's books "to disguise his and others' criminal conduct," as Bragg's deputies put it in a court document.
27% : Trump has pleaded not guilty and says the prosecution is politically driven bunk.
19% : Manhattan prosecutors say he did it as part of an effort to protect his 2016 campaign by burying what Trump says were false stories of extramarital sex.
10% : He said Trump directed him to arrange it, and federal prosecutors indicated they believed him, but they never charged Trump with any crime related to the matter.

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