‘Inadequate and not convincing’: Judge rejects ‘excuses’ from Trump to delay NY hush-money trial over presidential immunity

Donald Trump

FILE — Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Feb. 17, 2024. Trump is holding events Tuesday, April 2, in Grand Rapids, Mich. and Green Bay, Wis., as he pressures President Joe Biden on immigration. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Former President Donald Trump’s primary leadership PAC violated federal campaign finance law in a way “not unfamiliar” to the ex-president and now-presumptive GOP presidential nominee, according to a complaint filed by a nonpartisan public interest watchdog.

On Friday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington submitted a hard-charging nine-page complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging the Make America Great Again PAC tried to hide settlement payments in a sexual harassment, gender and pregnancy discrimination lawsuit by routing those payments through a third party or parties in violation of mandatory disclosure laws.

The complaint specifically likens the alleged “use of pass-throughs to hide the true purpose of payments” to the ongoing criminal woes Trump is facing on a personal level in New York City. Trump is currently on trial in Manhattan over hush money his longtime fixer Michael Cohen paid adult content creator Stormy Daniels in October 2016.

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