Trump can pay smaller bond in civil fraud case as judge sets April date for hush money trial

Donald Trump received both a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the first criminal trial of a former president in US history, a pair of rulings that hit home the legal whiplash constantly surrounding him.

The twin rulings Monday, which came roughly within an hour of each other, hit the intersection of challenges to Trump’s image and his famed business empire as he seeks a second term in the White House.

Here are key takeaways from another historic day for Trump:

Read more about today’s legal developments in the two cases.

Former President Donald Trump repeated some familiar baseless claims in remarks on Monday after major developments in two of his New York legal cases. He spoke after a judge set an April 15 date for the beginning of his Manhattan, New York, criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records related to a hush money scheme, and, separately, an appeals court reduced the bond he must put up after being found liable for civil fraud.

Trump claimed that “this is all Biden-run things” and that “these are all Biden trials.” He also claimed that Matthew Colangelo, a former senior Justice Department official who now works for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, had been “put into” the district attorney’s office by Biden. 

Facts First: There is no basis for Trump’s claims. First, there is no evidence that Biden has been involved in bringing or running any of the criminal or civil cases against Trump. The Manhattan prosecution is being led by Bragg and the civil fraud case by New York state Attorney General Letitia James. Both Bragg and James are elected officials who do not report to the president or the federal Justice Department. Second, there is no evidence that Biden had anything to do with Colangelo’s decision to leave the federal Justice Department and join the district attorney’s office in 2022 as senior counsel to Bragg. Colangelo and Bragg knew each other before Bragg was elected Manhattan district attorney.

Read more about the fact check.

Donald Trump is juggling a busy court and campaign schedule as he defends himself in several criminal cases while also vying for a second term in the White House.

The former president’s criminal hush money trial is expected to start on April 15. He faces charges stemming from his alleged falsification of business records with the intent to conceal illegal conduct connected to his 2016 presidential campaign.

The trial start date in Trump’s classified documents case in Florida had been set for late May, but the judge overseeing that case revisited the timing of the trial during a key hearing on March 1. Judge Aileen Cannon has not yet set a new date for the trial.

Here’s what the former president’s colliding calendar looks like:

Former President Donald Trump had a big legal day on Monday where some major movements happened in the civil fraud and hush money cases against him.

Here’s what to know about each case:

Hush money case: Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from reimbursements made to Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for hush money payments he made before the 2016 election to cover up an alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The former president has pleaded not guilty and denied the affair.

During a hearing in New York on Monday, which Trump attended, Judge Juan Merchan said the criminal trial against the former president will begin on April 15 with jury selection. The judge dismissed the Trump’s motion to toss out the indictment altogether or delay the trial further.

Civil fraud case: A New York appeals court ruled Trump must pay a $175 million bond as he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him. He also was given 10 additional days to post the bond.

It’s a major lifeline for the former president, who, along with his adult sons and his company, were fined more than $464 million, which was due today, after Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump and his co-defendants fraudulently inflated the value of his assets.

The ruling staves off the prospect, for now, of New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking to seize the former president’s property to enforce the judgment against him.

Donald Trump’s attorney Christopher Kise in a statement said the appellate ruling on the civil fraud bond is a “great first step towards reversal of “baseless and reckless judgment.”

Kise also said Trump looks forward to a “full and fair appellate process” that ends the New York Attorney General’s “abuse of power and tyrannical pursuit” of the Republican presidential candidate.

More on the ruling: A New York appeals court Monday said Trump has to post $175 million in 10 days in order for his appeal of Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling to go forward — giving the former president a lifeline as he faced possible seizure of his prized real estate properties.

Donald Trump scored a roughly 60% discount on the amount of cash he’ll need to pony up to avoid having his assets seized by the state of New York — an outcome that one legal expert said was “highly unusual.” 

A New York appellate court reduced Trump’s bond to $175 million from $464 million, and granted him 10 days to come up with the payment.

“It’s highly unusual that it would be reduced at all,” said Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor in New York. “And it’s highly unusual that it would be reduced by this amount.”

But, Epner said it’s not unprecedented, citing the 1980s fight between Texaco and Pennzoil, in which a court reduced Texaco’s bond from more than $10 billion to $1 billion. Texaco ended up filing for bankruptcy in 1987.

Trump, his adult sons and his company were fined more than $464 million, including interest, in the New York civil trial, after Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump and his co-defendants fraudulently inflated the value of his assets.

Correction: This post has been updated with the correct dollar amount of Trump’s earlier bond.

Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he would have “no problem” testifying in his criminal hush money trial that is now scheduled to begin next month.

“I would have no problem testifying. I didn’t do anything wrong,” Trump told reporters after attending a hearing in that trial in New York.

Trump’s New York criminal trial will begin on April 15 with jury selection, Judge Juan Merchan said Monday, after dismissing the former president’s motion to toss out the indictment altogether or delay the trial further.

Despite the set date, Trump cast doubt on whether the trial would take place, saying, “I don’t know that you’re gonna have the trial. I don’t know how you can have a trial like this in the middle of an election, a presidential election.”

Asked if he was concerned that a conviction in that trial could cost him the election in November, Trump answered, “Well, it could also make me more popular because the people know it’s a scam. It’s a Biden trial.”

Former President Donald Trump touted that he has “a lot of cash” when asked about the timeline of securing the $175 million bond in the civil fraud case against him.

He went on to say how he would also like to use his cash funds for his reelection bid and claimed, but “they don’t want me to use my cash to get reelected.”

Asked if he planned to start personal funds into his presidential campaign, Trump responded, “First of all, it’s none of your business,” before adding, “I might do that. I have the option.”

The former president also said he thought it would be possible to borrow money from a foreign government to post a bond in an American trial, but that he wouldn’t need to. Pressed by CNN’s Kate Sullivan if he would ever accept money from a foreign government to pay, Trump responded, “I don’t do that. I mean, I think you’d be allowed to, possibly,” remarking that many of the “biggest banks” are outside of the US.

This post has been updated with additional comments from Trump.

Former President Donald Trump claimed that the hush money trial against him in New York is being rushed and called it “election interference.”

“You have a case which … they’re dying to get this thing started. The judge cannot go faster. He wants to get it started so badly,” Trump said.

If the trial goes ahead on April 15, it could be the only of Trump’s criminal trials to take place before the November general election. The trial will have begun a year after the charges were filed.

Trump also argued there should not be a trial during the election and attacked his opponent, President Joe Biden.

Former President Donald Trump is speaking at his 40 Wall Street property in New York following developments in two legal cases against him.

In the hush money case, there was a hearing to address several of Trump’s motions, including one to dismiss the case. The judge denied those motions and ruled the criminal trial would start with jury selection on April 15.

Also on Monday, a New York appeals court ruled Trump must pay a $175 million bond as he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him, instead of the full $464 million judgment, which was due today.

Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group announced Monday its merger with a publicly-traded shell company has closed and trading will begin on Tuesday.

The closing of the merger between Trump Media and Digital World Acquisition Corp. amounts to a multi-billion dollar windfall for former President Donald Trump, who is the chairman and dominant shareholder of the new company.

Trading of the new company under the ticker symbol “DJT” on the Nasdaq Stock Market is set to begin on Tuesday, the companies said.  

News of the merger’s completion propelled shares of Digital World 21% higher on Monday. At current prices, Trump’s stake is valued at $3.5 billion. However, there are lock-up restrictions that would likely prevent Trump from selling or even borrowing against the value of that stock for months. 

Judge Juan Merchan is allowing former President Donald Trump’s attorneys in his hush money trial to file a motion Monday on grounds of pretrial publicity and will allow the district attorney’s office one week to respond.

Shortly before the hearing ended, Trump’s defense began arguing again for an adjournment over pretrial publicity, saying they were prepared to file a motion on Monday — requesting the delay.

The district attorney’s office responded that “pretrial publicity has been caused and exacerbated by the defendant” and said it’s prepared to oppose the defense motion if one is allowed.

Earlier, Merchan said the Manhattan district attorney’s office is not at fault for the late production of documents from the US Attorneys’ Office.

Details about the timeline: Jury selection will take place the week before Passover and all perspective jurors will be informed court will not convene on any date juror is unable to attend for religious observance. The judge indicated he may adjourn the trial for the start of Passover, which will falls in the second week of trial.

Former President Donald Trump called the hush money case against him a “pure case of voter intimidation and election interference.”

He was speaking after a judge ruled on Monday that jury selection will start in the trial on April 15.

“This was a case that could have been brought three-and-a-half years ago and they decided to wait now, just during the election, so that I won’t be able to campaign,” Trump said.

If the hush money trial starts in April, it would be the first of Trump’s four criminal trials to begin — and potentially the only one to occur before the presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump’s hush money case hearing in New York has ended.

Judge Juan Merchan said the criminal trial against Trump will begin on April 15 with jury selection.

During a hearing Monday, which was attended by Trump, the judge dismissed the former president’s motion to toss out the indictment altogether or delay the trial further.

Trump’s attorneys had sought sanctions against the Manhattan District Attorney’s office after more documents of discovery were turned over.

Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial on hush money-related charges will begin on April 15 with jury selection, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday. 

The judge set the trial date Monday after dismissing the former president’s motion to toss out the indictment altogether or delay the trial further.

Merchan, however, is giving Trump’s lawyers the opportunity to file a motion seeking to delay the trial based on pre-trial publicity concerns and will give the New York district attorney one week to respond.

Donald Trump praised the appeals court ruling, which has given him 10 more days to post his bond as the former president appeals the civil fraud judgment against him and cut the amount necessary to $175 million.

Outside of his separate hush money case hearing in New York, Trump remarked on the ruling, saying he “greatly” respects the decision of the court.

The former president said he would post the $175 million “in cash or bonds or security or whatever is necessary very quickly within the 10 days.”

As he left the courtroom at the conclusion of Monday’s hearing Trump added, “It will be my honor to post.” Trump then said he will use cash for collateral, when questioned by a reporter.

Trump also attacked Judge Arthur Engoron, who ruled that the former president needed to pay the full $464 million judgment, in the civil fraud case.

“What he’s done is such a disservice and should never be allowed to happen. New York state is being battered by his decision,” Trump said. He added, “Judge Engoron is a disgrace to this country.”

CNN’s Kristina Sgueglia and Nicki Brown contributed reporting to this post.

The New York appeals court ruling Monday staves off the prospect, for now, of New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking to seize the former president’s property to enforce the judgment against him.

Donald Trump had been struggling to come up with the means to post the $464 million bond as he appeals, a figure that is now cut to $175 million.

But it also means James will face a significant delay for the appeals court to take up Trump’s appeal.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the New York attorney general said:

“Donald Trump is still facing accountability for his staggering fraud. The court has already found that he engaged in years of fraud to falsely inflate his net worth and unjustly enrich himself, his family, and his organization. The $464 million judgment – plus interest – against Donald Trump and the other defendants still stands.”

The New York appeals court’s order in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial means that Trump and his sons can still run a business in New York and obtain loans from New York financial institutions for the moment.

The appeals court’s order gives Trump 10 more days to post his bond to satisfy the civil fraud judgment and cut the amount necessary to $175 million.

Judge Arthur Engoron’s court-ordered monitor and the appointment of a compliance director for Trump’s company will remain in place, however.

Judge Juan Merchan seems dubious of former President Donald Trump’s claims that federal prosecutors purposely withheld evidence.

“It’s odd that we’re even here,” Merchan said.

The hearing is in a recess until noon ET.

Just as the recess came, the New York appeals court gave Trump a major victory, cutting the bond needed in the civil fraud case from $464 million to $175 million and gave him an extra 10 days to find the cash.

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A New York appeals court has given Donald Trump 10 more days to post his bond as he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him and cut the amount necessary to $175 million.

It’s a major lifeline for the former president, who, along with his adult sons and his company, were fined more than $464 million, including interest, after Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump and his co-defendants fraudulently inflated the value of his assets.

The ruling staves off the prospect, for now, of New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking to seize the former president’s property to enforce the judgment against him.

Trump had been struggling to come up with the means to post the full $464 million bond, the total that he would have needed before Monday’s appellate decision.

Judge Juan Merchan appeared skeptical Monday of Donald Trump’s allegations against the Manhattan district attorney over the production of new documents, questioning the accusations that the district attorney’s office acted unethically.

Merchan is holding a hearing Monday to address Trump’s motion for sanctions against the district attorney’s office, including to dismiss the charges, toss out testimony from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels and dismiss the trial for at least 90 days.

But during the hearing, the judge peppered Trump attorney Todd Blanche with questions about the allegations, expressing exasperation that Trump’s attorneys couldn’t cite any case law that the district attorney was responsible for what the US Attorney turned over.

“You are literally accusing the Manhattan DA’s office and the people assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of trying to make me complicit in it and you don’t have a single cite to support that position?” Merchan said.

Merchan said that Trump’s attorneys were leveling allegations that were “incredibly serious, unbelievably serious” — and it was “disconcerting” the defense couldn’t provide a citation to back it up. The judge also pressed Blanche on why Trump’s lawyers didn’t ask for the documents more quickly, following the first production of documents were turned over last spring.

Trump’s attorneys subpoenaed the documents from the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in January, leading to the production of tens of thousands of documents in March that prompted Merchan to postpone the trial, supposed to start today, until at least mid-April.

As Trump attorney Todd Blanche blames the New York District Attorney’s office for not pressuring federal prosecutors to turn over additional documents related to Michael Cohen, Judge Juan Merchan is getting impatient.

Merchan asked why Trump’s attorneys didn’t ask for additional documents from the Southern District of New York after receiving the first production last May.

Blanche, the judge noted, once was a prosecutor in the federal office.

“You were there 13 years, so you know that the defense has the same ability as the prosecution to obtain these documents,” Merchan said. “…You could have very easily done exactly what you did in January but for whatever reason you waited until two months before trial.”

Blanche argues that the DA should have done so — but Merchan disagreed.

“For one, it’s not our job to get it. The statute…,” Blanche said.

The judge cut him off, saying, “It’s not the people’s job either.”

Judge Juan Merchan is now going after the defense’s allegations, raising his voice for the first time in the hearing, saying the fact they don’t have a court citation that the NY District Attorney’s office was obligated for the US Attorney to turn over documents is “really disconcerting.”

“You are literally accusing the Manhattan DA’s office and the people assigned to this case of prosecutorial misconduct and of trying to make me complicit in it and you don’t have a single cite to support that position?” the judge said.

The judge has otherwise been calm and level throughout the hearing.

Merchan then asked the defense whether it’s their position that the US attorney “knowingly retained information” that should have been turned over to the prosecution when it was requested.

“No, it’s that the people never asked,” Trump attorney Todd Blanche responded.

As Blanche and Merchan debate case law, Trump is looking closely to his side at his attorney with his arms folded in front of him.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche suggested the Michael Cohen FBI interviews that the US Attorney’s Office turned over are related to the investigation by former special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Judge Juan Merchan said not to bring it up. “That’s not relevant, what does that have to do with this case?” Merchan said, adding that he will not allow anything about the Russia investigation in as evidence in this case. “It has nothing to do with this case.”

Blanche countered that the FBI discussed what Cohen was doing with Trump before Trump took office, which he argues could be relevant. Cohen paid the hush money to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.

Blanche said the interviews with Cohen from the Mueller investigation address relevant topics like the allegations in this case and the Access Hollywood tape.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche told the court there are “thousands” of relevant documents to this case that belatedly were turned over to the former president’s lawyers, including Michael Cohen’s bank records and his interviews with the FBI.

Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is a key witness for the district attorney’s office. He was the conduit for paying the hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels that is at the heart of the case. Trump’s team says the information is either exculpatory or can be used to impeach Cohen as a witness.

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, meanwhile, said the number of relevant documents produced in the latest federal disclosure is “quite small.”

“We have a pretty refined understanding” of the disclosure, Colangelo said — about 300 pages.

Donald Trump’s legal team and the New York Attorney General’s office are working hard ahead of the former president’s Monday’s deadline to secure a bond for the multimillion-dollar civil fraud judgment against him.

Trump personally owes over $454 million stemming from the ruling made by Judge Arthur Engoron back in February. The figure balloons up to $463.9 million when including the money owed from his sons, Eric and Donald Jr., the Trump Organization and the interest that was accrued as of the date of the ruling.

Experts who spoke to CNN say Attorney General Letitia James and her staff should be poised to start the complicated legal maze of seizing Trump’s assets if the former president does not secure the bonds needed to cover Engoron’s ruling as he appeals. Assets, such as buildings, houses, cars, helicopters and his plane, are in play. The main focus could be on his bank accounts, which experts say will be easier to take hold of, and properties, which would be more difficult.

Trump has asked a state appeals court to allow him to post a smaller bond – or none at all – claiming he would face irreparable harm if he were forced to sell properties at a fire sale that can’t be undone if he ultimately wins his appeal. The court has not yet ruled.

Read more about how the process could play out.

Judge Juan Merchan asked his first question to Donald Trump’s lawyers, asking why no one mentioned the discovery issue related to all the documents they sought from the US Attorney’s Office for so long.

Trump’s team brought up the discovery issue on February 15, but their subpoena was filed with federal prosecutors January 18.

“How come you didn’t bring it up?” Merchan asked.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche says he doesn’t know what “intervention we could have sought” on February 15, because they didn’t know what they were going to get from the federal prosecutors

Judge Juan Merchan is in the courtroom and the hearing has begun.

Former President Donald Trump is sitting at the defense table in between his attorneys Susan Necheles and Emil Bove, with his hands folded and had two stacks of papers in front of him as he waited for the hearing to start.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is seated in the second row behind the prosecution table.

The judge began by saying that Trump is seeking to dismiss the trial or preclude testimony from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels and delay the trial at least 90 days, accusing the district attorney of “engaging in widespread conduct.”

Merchan is reading highlights from the Trump filing, including accusations that the DA’s office is trying to interfere in the 2024 election and engage in a strategy to “hide the truth.”

Former President Donald Trump is at a New York criminal court for a pre-trial hearing in his hush money criminal case.

The hearing is to discuss discovery issues that led to the delay of Trump’s New York criminal trial until at least April. Trump’s lawyers have asked to further delay or dismiss the case. As he entered the hearing, Trump called the case a “hoax.”

Cameras are allowed in the hallway of the courthouse, and Trump has frequently taken the opportunity to speak to media around his appearances. He’s expected to deliver remarks after the court hearing.

Another looming legal threat: The hearing also comes on the same day he is staring down a deadline to secure a bond while he appeals Judge Arthur Engoron’s $464 million civil fraud decision against him, his adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization. Trump has until Monday to post bond.

If he can’t somehow find the money by Monday, the New York attorney general may begin the process of seizing some of Trump’s assets to finance his obligation to the state. Trump has appealed the ruling.

Former President Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from reimbursements made to Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for hush money payments he made before the 2016 election to an adult film star alleging an affair with Trump. The former president has pleaded not guilty and denied the affair with Stormy Daniels.

Prosecutors alleged that Trump sought to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election through a hush money scheme with payments made to women who claimed they had extramarital affairs with Trump. He has denied the affairs.

Trump was part of an unlawful plan to suppress negative information, including an illegal payment of $130,000 that was ordered by the defendant to suppress the negative information that would hurt his campaign, prosecutors alleged.

Trump “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” according to the charging documents.

Donald Trump will face a seasoned judge at the hearing today who is no stranger to the former president’s orbit. Judge Juan Merchan has sentenced Trump’s close confidant Allen Weisselberg to prison, presided over the Trump Organization tax fraud trial and overseen former adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal fraud case.

Merchan has been described by observers as a “tough” judge, yet one who is fair, no matter who is before him. Merchan launched his legal career in 1994 when he started off as an assistant district attorney in the trial division in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Several years later, he moved on to the state attorney general’s office, where he worked on cases in Long Island.

In 2006, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, then a Republican, appointed Merchan to Family Court in the Bronx, and Democratic Gov. David Paterson appointed him to the New York State Court of Claims in 2009, the same year he began serving as an acting New York Supreme Court Judge.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Merchan emigrated to the United States at the age of 6 and grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, according to a New York Times profile of the judge. He was the first in his family to go to college.

Merchan initially studied business at Baruch College in New York before he dropped out of school to go work only to return several years later to finish school so that he could get his law degree, the Times reported. He eventually received his law degree from Hofstra University.

Donald Trump’s tumultuous life has been rocked by bankruptcies, personal scandals, impeachments and election wins and losses, but nothing quite compares to the personal and financial crisis facing the once-and-possibly future president this week.

Trump is struggling to post a bond worth around half a billion dollars on Monday to stop the state of New York from targeting his assets following a huge fraud judgment. The situation he finds himself in threatens the empire that conjured the tycoon’s aura and assumptions of massive wealth that are critical to his self-identity and political brand.

But exemplifying the roller-coaster nature of his public career, Trump is also soon poised for a massive financial windfall. A deal to take his media company public promises to add about $3 billion to his net wealth – even if it won’t ease his cash crunch in the short term.

That’s not all. Trump may find out Monday when he will become the first ex-president to go on trial, as the judge hearing a Manhattan hush money case holds a critical hearing. The case, related to payment to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election, could lead to Trump being a convicted felon by November’s election.

Read the full analysis.

Donald Trump’s first criminal trial was supposed to begin Monday. Instead, his lawyers will get the chance to argue for a lengthy postponement and even a dismissal of the charges.

Judge Juan Merchan is holding a pre-trial hearing in New York on Monday to discuss the discovery issues that led to the delay of the trial on charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney related to hush money payments until at least the middle of next month.

Here’s what to know ahead of today’s hearing:

Manhattan prosecutors say fewer than 270 documents recently turned over to Donald Trump by federal authorities are new and relevant to the criminal case involving hush money payments and no further delay to the trial is warranted.

Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office also told the judge that no sanctions were warranted and placed the blame on Trump’s lawyers for the late disclosure of records from the US attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

Trump asked Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss the indictment and delay the trial for 90 days, alleging prosecutors withheld information from them involving the federal prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and a key witness for the state.

In a series of filings Thursday, the district attorney’s office accused Trump’s lawyers of trying to allege a “grab-bag of meritless discovery arguments in the latest of a long series of attempts to evade responsibility for the conduct charged in the indictment.”

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels said she was afraid for her life after her secret hush money deal with Donald Trump exploded onto the public stage in 2018 while he was president.

Daniels said she agreed to accept the $130,000 hush money payment just days before the 2016 presidential election to keep her one-night stand with Trump in 2006 from becoming public to protect her husband and daughter, and so “that there would be a paper trail and money trail linking me to Donald Trump so that he could not have me killed.”

The documentary is an inside look at Daniels’ life navigating the roller coaster that followed the public revealing of the hush money payment that ultimately landed Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen in federal prison for breaking campaign finance laws. Trump was charged with falsifying business records for allegedly covering up the reimbursement of those payments to influence the election. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies the affair.

Blame-shifting has played out in public court filings between attorneys for Donald Trump and the state after the Department of Justice turned over tens of thousands of documents this month.

The US attorney’s office in Manhattan amassed information about the hush money scheme when it built a case years ago against Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen. His 2018 guilty plea on charges related to the hush money transactions and other unrelated crimes sparked the state investigation into Trump’s role in the scheme.

Prosecutors said they properly requested and gave Trump any required information produced by the US attorney’s office last year, blaming the late record production on Trump’s lawyers who they say waited to subpoena the information until mid-January.

Attorneys for Trump, however, say they didn’t force federal prosecutors with a subpoena but have received the new information in response to a “straightforward request” to the US attorney’s office. The fact that the US attorney’s office produced the documents “without any enforceable compulsory process from the defense, is strong evidence that the People failed in their obligation to ‘make a diligent, good faith effort to ascertain the existence of material or information discoverable,’” a letter filed by Trump’s team said.

District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office maintains they properly turned over all case material to Trump’s lawyers and did not violate any procedural requirements to warrant a dismissal of the case. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has declined to comment on the matter.

Read more about what both sides are saying about the documents.

In all, federal prosecutors turned over more than 100,000 pages of documents in recent weeks in Donald Trump’s hush money case, with the last batch containing about 15,000 pages, according to Judge Juan Merchan’s order.

Trump’s lawyers say the new information is exculpatory for the former president and damaging to prosecutors’ key witness, Michael Cohen, so they need at least 90 days to properly review the new material.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has said the majority of the records are not relevant to the charges on trial, but still consented to a delay of up to 30 days “in an abundance of caution.”

District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office did acknowledge some of the new documents pertain to the state’s case against Trump, but added that it expects most of those documents to be unrelated to the state’s case.