Trump faces March 25 trial in hush-money criminal case
A judge in New York ruled Donald Trump’s trial over alleged hush-money payments to a porn star to influence the 2016 election will start as planned on March 25, making it the first of four criminal cases against the former president to go before a jury.
Trump appeared in a packed Manhattan courtroom Thursday as the schedule was set by Justice Juan Merchan, who had earlier put the trial on hold…