Trump hush money prosecutor tells judge he is OK with one-month delay of trial start

• Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told a judge that he did not oppose delaying the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump by up to 30 days.
• Bragg in a court filing noted that federal prosecutors this week turned over 31,000 pages of records to his office and lawyers for the former Republican president.
• Trump is facing four criminal prosecutions as he prepares to face President Joe Biden in November's election.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday told a judge that he does not oppose postponing the start of the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump by up to 30 days.

Bragg said that delay would give Trump's attorneys time to review tens of thousands of documents turned over Wednesday by federal prosecutors related to their criminal prosecution of Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.

The D. A. told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that his prosecution team is prepared to start Trump's trial on March 25 as currently scheduled.

But, Bragg wrote in a court filing, "We do not oppose an adjournment in an abundance of caution and to ensure that defendant has sufficient time to review the new materials."

Trump is charged with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment that Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual tryst with the then-presidential nominee.

Cohen, who is set to testify against Trump at the trial, pleaded guilty in 2018 in Manhattan federal court to federal campaign finance violations related to hush money paid to Daniels and to another woman who said she had an affair with Trump.

Bragg in his filing said that the U.S. Attorney's Office in