Manhattan DA tells judge not to further delay Trump trial: 'Enough is enough'

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Source: NBC News

State prosecutors in New York said Thursday that fewer than 300 of the over 170,000 documents recently turned over to lawyers for former President Donald Trump are potentially relevant to his criminal defense and that their case alleging falsified business records should proceed to trial on April 15.

In a court filing, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said the vast majority of the evidence turned over by federal prosecutors that it considers new and relevant originated from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and has no bearing on the allegations against Trump.

“Enough is enough. These tactics by defendant and defense counsel should be stopped,” the DA’s filing said, referring to Trump’s attempts to further delay or derail the trial.

Cohen is expected to be a key witness in the trial, which was delayed until at least mid-April following the eleventh-hour disclosures by the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. Trump's lawyers have accused the DA's office of failing to do its due diligence by getting the records earlier, and have asked Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss the charges as a punishment.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/manhattan-da-tells-judge-not-175941355.html

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Delay delay delay

[Irish_Dem]

1. I think many Americans have the same feeling: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

2. Whoa Cannon Is Mob Connected To Trump

Link to tweet

[tanyev]

4. Now, now. Who among us doesn't have a close family member

that worked for a Florida-based ex-New York mobster?

[dickthegrouch]

3. So why the dump?

They had to know it would be counter productive.

[quakerboy]

6. Delay

and possibly trying to hide something in the mass

[HariSeldon]

8. Federal prosecutor's response to TRUMP's subpoena

Trump's team delivered a subpoena for these records to the SDNY US Attorney's office (SDNY USAO) in January -- pretty late in the discovery phase for his trial by the Manhattan DA. Apparently, Trump's legal team also acquiesced to production delays by the SDNY USAO, meaning that the timing of this discovery production is the Trump team's fault. Bragg doesn't want it delaying the trial any further than the 30 days he already asked the judge to give them.

[Silent Type]

5. Will be interesting to see if DA's admonishment is enough to avoid the next delay.

[riversedge]

7. I wonder if anyone has counted all the delays for Trumps trials. ??

[republianmushroom]

9. The DA is correct, no more delays.