And “Fani Willis” was a trending topic on Google and X, formerly Twitter.Ī former friend and coworker of Willis, the chief prosecutor of Fulton County, testified there was “no doubt” that Willis and Wade were involved in a romantic relationship after seeing the two hugging and kissing years before he was hired as special prosecutor and before he officially filed for divorce. Thousands of people watched livestreams online and on cable news. The Atlanta hearing, meanwhile, took on the tone of a soap opera even without Trump present. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable of sexually assaulting her. He spent days voluntarily sitting in on his New York civil fraud trial and a defamation case that ended with him being ordered to pay an additional $83.3 million to writer E. Trump has also repeatedly chosen to appear in court even when not required. She noted Trump’s Wednesday trip to her home state was just his second in 80 days. Many weeks, he holds just one or two public events - a schedule that his last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, has tried to highlight. Throughout his campaign, Trump has kept a far lighter campaign schedule than most of his Republican rivals. He attended court in New York on Tuesday having held a rally the night before in South Carolina, which hosts the next Republican primary on Feb. In reality, that’s not much different from what he’s been doing all along. I’ll be here during the day and I’ll be campaigning during the night,” he said. every day except for Wednesday.Īsked how he planned to balance the campaign trail with the trial, Trump told reporters he’ll campaign in the evening. That means Trump will be expected to be in court from March 25 through the first week or so of May from 9:30a.m. The New York trial will last about six weeks, according to Merchan. “The fact that we are now going to spend, President Trump is now going to spend, the next two months working on this trial instead of out … on the campaign trail running for president is something that should not happen in this country,” Blanche said. It would be impossible, he argued, for Trump and his attorneys to adequately prepare given the combined “millions of pages of discovery” across Trump’s cases.īlanche echoed Trump’s longstanding claims of politicization, asserting that being forced to sit inside a courtroom during primary season amounted to “election interference.” Trump attorney Todd Blanche repeatedly cast the March 25 date as unfair and unrealistic, asking Judge Juan Merchan to hold off on making a decision. Here are other takeaways from two courtrooms on Thursday:Īs they have with all of his cases, Trump’s lawyers vigorously argued to delay the proceedings, citing the political calendar and Trump’s other cases, including one in Washington over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election that is effectively on hold pending the outcome of an appeal. Tuesday’s hearings previewed what a general election campaign will look like as Trump flies back and forth from courtrooms and campaign rallies and blurs the lines between the two. In Atlanta, attorneys grilled a special prosecutor on the Georgia election interference indictment against Trump over the prosecutor’s romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, trying to get Willis and her office thrown off the case. history to be tried on criminal charges.īy that time, Trump could very well have won enough Republican delegates to be his party’s presumptive nominee. So there are 39 days before he becomes the first former president in U.S. In Manhattan, a judge ruled that Trump’s hush-money case will begin on March 25, making it the first of his indictments to go to trial. NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump ‘s unprecedented tangle of overlapping trials was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings in New York and Georgia. By JILL COLVIN and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON (Associated Press)
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