When does the criminal trial against Donald Trump begin in New York?

Judge Juan Merchan announced this Monday that the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) will begin on April 15 in New York for 34 crimes related to irregular payments to a porn actress in 2016, a trial that was scheduled to begin. this Monday.

Trump went to the hearing in person, dressed in a blue suit and a red tie, from where he once again repeated to the press that his various trials in New York are a witch hunt by the Democrats.

“This is election interference and should not be allowed to happen”noted Trump, who will be the first former president in the country’s history to face a criminal trial.

The Republican presidential candidate pointed out that this case could have been presented three and a half years ago, but “They decided to wait now, right during the elections, so that I cannot campaign”.

The former president’s defense team wanted the judge to further delay his trial.

On March 15, Merchan, who was born in Colombia and arrived in the United States when he was 6 years old, postponed for 30 days a trial that was scheduled for today with jury selection.

Both the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office, which is prosecuting the case, and Trump’s defense, They had been in favor of the postponement given the large number of documents provided by federal authorities this month.

Trump’s lawyers previously argued that the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office had violated the rules governing the analysis and selection of evidence and therefore asked that the entire indictment be dismissed or, alternatively, that several testimonies be excluded and the trial be postponed to least 90 days.

In parallel, this same Monday a New York appeals court authorized the former president to pay a lower bail than that originally established in a case of civil fraud.

The former president must now pay bail of 175 million dollars within ten days (instead of 464 million), while the appeal for the sentence that requires him to pay 454 million dollars is resolved.

This is an important lifeline for the former president, who, along with some of his children and his company, was fined after Judge Arthur Engoron noted that Trump and the other defendants fraudulently inflated the value of their assets.