New York prosecutors have requested a judge to commence Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial on April 15, dismissing the defense's claims for further delays or dismissal of the case due to a recent evidence disclosure as a 'red herring.' Prosecutors stated that the majority of the records provided to Trump's lawyers, over 100,000 pages from a prior federal investigation, were either immaterial, duplicative, or substantially duplicative of evidence already in their possession.
Out of 31,000 documents in one batch, only a small fraction were deemed relevant to Trump's case and had not been previously shared with his legal team. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan completed the evidence handover to Trump's lawyers on March 15.
