Donald Trump has not finished attacking American justice.
“I don’t understand how we can have a trial in the middle of an election.
It’s unfair,” said the Republican candidate during a press conference in New York, regarding the Stormy Daniels affair.
The criminal trial of the former American president is scheduled to begin on April 15.
The judge rejected the defense's request to grant him a new deadline.
“The court concludes that the prosecution has respected and continues to respect its obligations regarding the communication of evidence,” said Judge Juan Merchan in the reasons for his decision.
Initially scheduled to begin this Monday, the trial was provisionally postponed to mid-April following the recent filing of thousands of pages of documents.
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Juan Merchan quickly made it clear that he did not intend to grant a new postponement of the trial, which was initially scheduled to begin on Monday, for payments before the 2016 presidential election to a former porn star, Stormy Daniels, with whom Donald Trump allegedly had an extramarital affair in 2006. “The prosecution has gone well beyond its obligations, it is strange that we are here” to discuss a new deadline, the judge told Donald Trump's lawyers.
Multiple appeals
He finally set April 15 as the new date for this historic judicial first for a former American president, punishable by four years in prison.
The ex-president is increasing his appeals to delay his trials as much as possible, if possible after the presidential election on November 5.
Donald Trump denies any affair with Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford.
He pleaded not guilty to charges of defacing the Trump Organization's accounts to hide the $130,000 paid in October 2016 so that she would keep quiet about a sexual encounter ten years earlier when he was already married to Melania Trump.