Donald Trump’s latest maneuver to try to avoid a looming sentencing date next month for his conviction for falsifying business records includes an ambitious request to move the case into federal court.
The former US president’s sentencing on 34 felony counts in a hush-money trial that gripped the nation had been set for 18 September at state court level in Manhattan. His lawyers had already filed a motion to delay that hearing until after November’s presidential election, in which he is the Republican nominee.
