Bragg requests delay of Trump hush money trial for 30 days

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg requested Thursday to postpone the start of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial for 30 days to give Trump time to review more than 100,000 pages of new evidence in the case.

Trump wants to see the trial delayed 90 days because of the volume of evidence being thrown at him.

Prosecutors released 73,000 pages of evidence to the defense on March 4 and another 31,000 Wednesday. More records are expected next week.

The trial was due to begin March 25, a date set by Judge Juan Merchan.

Bragg blamed the flood of records on Trump, who waited until January to ask for the full grand jury record related to Cohen's 2018 federal conviction on campaign finance violations, which Bragg had asked for last June.

"The timing of the USAO's productions is a result solely of defendant's delay despite the People's diligence," Bragg wrote, but agreed that Trump might need some extra time. Cohen was convicted of campaign finance fraud and other charges for making the alleged payments, and subsequently turned on Trump and blamed him for the whole thing.