Manhattan DA blasts Trump for trying to delay hush money trial over publicity he's 'actively seeking'

• Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged a judge to reject a bid by Donald Trump to delay his upcoming criminal hush money trial due to biased media coverage.
• Bragg is prosecuting Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to conceal a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
• Trump is to blame for the press coverage, and for that reason, "it would be perverse to reward [him] with an adjournment," Bragg told New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan.
• Bragg's filing came after Merchan expanded Trump's gag order following the ex-president's posts targeting the judge's daughter.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged a judge to reject an eleventh-hour bid by Donald Trump to delay his upcoming criminal hush money trial due to biased media coverage.

Bragg, who accuses Trump of falsifying business records in a scheme to conceal a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, said in a court filing shared Wednesday that the former president himself is to blame for the rabid press.

Trump's "own incessant rhetoric is generating significant publicity, and it would be perverse to reward [him] with an adjournment based on media attention he is actively seeking," Bragg told New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan.

Trump "simply cannot have it both ways: complaining about the prejudicial effect of pretrial publicity, while seeking to pollute the jury pool himself by making baseless and inflammatory accusations about this trial, specific witnesses, individual prosecutors, and the Court itself," Bragg wrote.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is also wrong to claim that the deluge of publicity means he can't get a fair jury, the D.A. wrote.

An "indefinite adjournment" is also unwarranted, Bragg