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Politics
Dennis Aftergut

Trump fires blanks in bid to delay trial

Last week, Donald Trump filed a new motion to delay his Manhattan prosecution for falsifying business records to cover up an election interference scandal before the 2016 election. The new filing is so pathetically weak that NBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin called Trump’s new motion the “Hail Mary to end all Hail Mary’s.” 

Trump’s desperation to avoid criminal accountability is showing. With the 2024 election looming, he doesn’t want America to know whether 12 ordinary jurors think he committed crimes connected to his 2016 cover up. It’s the crux of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s election interference case.

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