‘You’re losing all credibility’: Gag order hearing in Trump hush-money case goes very poorly for the defense

Donald Trump glares at a camera in court

Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have once again failed to convince a New York appeals court to pause his hush-money trial.

Though well past the 11th hour, or even the 12th hour, the 45th president’s defense team sought to pump the brakes on his by-now in-progress criminal trial over a series of allegations against New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan in a three-pronged appeal filed with the First Judicial Department Appellate Division.

On Tuesday, the appeals court rejected the defense’s motion.

To hear the defense tell it, in the words of the court’s order, the trial judge previously “acted in excess” of his jurisdiction by: (1) “refusing to recuse himself” from the proceedings; (2) by restricting the number of docket entries and limiting the public record; (3) and by ruling that Trump is “foreclosed from relying in said proceedings on the presidential immunity doctrine as an evidentiary objection at trial.”

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