Another Friday, and another busy day in multiple courts, for former president Donald Trump. First it was the judge in Georgia ruling that either D.A. Fani Willis, or special prosecutor Nathan Wade must step down. They went with Wade.
And then late Friday afternoon, as expected, a judge in NY delayed the start of Donald Trump's hush-money trial by 30 days to give Trump's lawyers enough time to go through a last minute evidence dump by the feds.
The Justice Department had notified Trump's legal team and the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that it planned to produce 15,000 records of potential evidence on Friday. The DOJ investigated the hush-money payment matter while Trump was president.
The U.S. Attorneys Office said much of the material is unrelated to the state case against Trump. The federal prosecutors have already provided at least 104,000 pages of records — 74,000 of which initially went just to Bragg's office and not to Trump's lawyers.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from alleged hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress, during his 2016 presidential campaign.