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New York Justice Juan Merchan has set a trial date for President Trump’s now-infamous “hush money” case in Manhattan, where the president was hit with 34 felony charges last year.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Merchan set the trial date for March 25, 2024, which will kick off right in the middle of the 2024 campaign season. The decision came on Thursday during a hearing that also denied a motion from the defense to dismiss the case.
Outside of the courtroom, Trump told the press, “There is NO case. They decided not to bring it. The District Attorney Bragg didn’t want to bring it…we’re here for something that is NOT a crime.”
This is one of several legal battles that Trump is fighting this year amid an election season, something that he described on Thursday morning as “election interference” in his comments to the press.
Upon leaving the court several hours later, the president took to Truth Social and shared his thoughts on the day’s proceedings.
He wrote, “Just left the Courthouse in Manhattan. Biden’s DOJ people have taken control of the case. There was NO CRIME, and almost all legal scholars are saying that. It’s Election Interference, the Dems 2024 way of cheating!”
While Trump was in New York, an evidentiary hearing unfolded in Georgia as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her alleged lover, Nathan Wade, were put under the microscope in their spearheading of an election-related case against the president.
The allegations surrounded accusations of financial benefits for both Wade and Willis, as Wade was hired as a prosecutor to go after Trump in the case.
Trump wrote on Truth Social of the Georgia hearing, “MSNBC JUST STATED GAME OVER FOR THE FAKE FANI WILLIS CASE IN GEORGIA. ANOTHER SCAM COORDINATED WITH THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE FOR PURPOSES OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!”