Former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial will start March 25,

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NEW YORK - A judge ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial will begin March 25, meaning Trump will stay home for weeks and talk more from the campaign trail as he turns his attention to his presidential campaign against President Joe Biden.

Judge Juan Merchan sets a trial date after rejecting Trump's attempt to dismiss allegations of improper payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

During Thursday's hearing in Manhattan Court of Appeals, Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche repeatedly tried to postpone the trial date while sitting at the defense table.

"We object to what happened in court," Legs said during the hearing, which lasted more than 90 minutes. "For President Trump to spend the next two months taking this test is more like a presidential campaign; it should never happen in this country."

Branch echoed Trump's own comments, calling the decision "all about election interference." entered the court.

In a 30-page decision published Thursday morning, the Chamber of Commerce rejected Trump's request to drop his silence allegations. Trump argued that the indictment of Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was politically motivated.

The hearing is expected to last six weeks.

Trump faces 34 felony charges for breach of business records related to underpayments. Trump allegedly arranged the payment through an intermediary in an attempt to debunk the story that Daniels had an affair with Trump during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.

According to the indictment, Trump forged funds in Trump Organization records and failed to properly report the money to campaign finance records.

The hush money document is one of four criminal cases Trump faces for the Republican nomination. The timeline for the other three cases, two involving attempts to overturn the 2020 election and one involving the withholding of classified information, remains unclear.

Prosecutors in those cases have pushed for the trials to begin before this year's election, but Trump has sought to delay the trials or dismiss them altogether.

During the hearing, Merchant said he spoke twice last week with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., who is overseeing Trump's impeachment inquiry, to manage time.

At Thursday's hearing, jury selection for the trial in March was also discussed. Branch believes Trump's various legal troubles not only led to assignment problems but also created an "incredible" environment for jury selection. He wrote that prosecutors "established that the investigation and subsequent prosecution were initiated based on publicly available reports regarding the defendants' involvement in crime that occurred in New York in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election."

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