“Donald Trump’s attorneys failed to persuade an appeals court judge on Wednesday to delay the former president’s New York criminal trial, scheduled to begin next week, by saying the presiding judge was not qualified to oversee the proceedings,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Fails Yet Again to Delay Criminal Trial
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