Disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers on Friday sent Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan a letter telling him District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s offer of a 30 day delay for the Stormy Daniels hush money payoff trial start after the federal Southern District of New York dragged their asses on producing discovery evidence is “not sufficient” and are asking for a hearing on the matter to be scheduled for the week of March 25, when the trial is supposed to start, Politico’s Erica Orden reports.
There’s no indication yet from Merchan on how to handle this but, let’s just try to be optimistic here because everyone else is like “OMG TRUMP’S NOT GOING ON TRIAL,” there’s always a decent chance that Donald’s asshole lawyers are going to find some way to piss off the judge and he’ll only give them an extra week or two to review the documents. Judges really don’t like Trump’s lawyers.
Now for the bad news: Any delay in Trump’s trial pushes back Steve Bannon’s trial for the “We Build The Wall” scam since Merchan is overseeing that one too. It’s supposed to start in May, although it’s hard to see that one taking particularly long given that his three accomplices were all convicted at the federal level after Bannon was pardoned by Trump at the last minute in 2021.