{"id":2223035,"date":"2024-04-17T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wednesday-reprieve-why-trump-will-get-a-midweek-break-from-his-hush-money-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:07:36","slug":"wednesday-reprieve-why-trump-will-get-a-midweek-break-from-his-hush-money-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wednesday-reprieve-why-trump-will-get-a-midweek-break-from-his-hush-money-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Relief: Trump&#8217;s Break from Hush Money Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwednesday-reprieve-why-trump-will-get-a-midweek-break-from-his-hush-money-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2223035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump will be\u200d absent from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a> in Manhattan on Wednesdays. Judge Juan Merchan&#8217;s other court obligations outside the trial prompt \u200cthe schedule adjustment. This move ensures efficient time management and aims to \u200doptimize court \u200cprocedures. Former President Donald Trump will not attend his hush money trial in Manhattan on Wednesdays. Judge Juan Merchan&#8217;s external \u200ccourt commitments are the reason \u2064for this scheduling \u200dchange. \u200bThe adjustment is \u200cmade\u2063 to enhance\u200b time management and streamline court \u200dprocedures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> will not be in court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Manhattan<\/a> on Wednesday or subsequent Wednesdays for his hush money trial.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will not have proceedings scheduled on Wednesdays to allow Judge Juan Merchan to deal with other court proceedings he has outside of the hush money trial. The procedure to mark one day of the week to take off from proceedings in a trial is common practice.<\/p>\n<p>While Wednesdays are not expected to have any proceedings related to the hush money trial, the judge said he will not hold any sessions in court unless there are significant delays in the trial, which is expected to last six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who is required to be in court throughout the criminal trial, may use the off days in the middle of the week to his advantage as he campaigns for a second term in the White House. Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the judge on Monday that the former president\u2019s campaign has \u201ctaken pains\u201d to put events on Wednesdays to accommodate the trial schedule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/17\/trump-trial-wednesdays-00152708?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=b184d69e-b2a2-4eb9-933e-7e669f36c25d&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"according to\">according to<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The former president has infused a New York state of mind into his campaign while having to attend court proceedings in Manhattan by visiting a bodega in the city on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bodega Trump visited was where clerk Jose Alba was attacked by a would-be robber in 2022, leading to Alba being charged with murder for defending himself. The charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who charged Trump in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-problem-with-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case-against-trump\/\" title=\"The Big Problem With The Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Against Trump\">hush money case<\/a>, were later dropped.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has complained about the trial schedule taking him away from campaigning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">key swing states<\/a>, among other events such as oral arguments in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-rejects-jack-smiths-request-to-expedite-trump-presidential-immunity-dispute\/\" title=\"SCOTUS denies Jack Smith's plea for fast-tracking Trump immunity dispute\">presidential immunity case<\/a> before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In the Manhattan hush money case, jury selection is set to resume on Thursday with Trump in attendance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s hush money trial in Manhattan will not proceed on Wednesdays. Judge Juan Merchan&#8217;s other court commitments outside the trial necessitate this scheduling adjustment. This decision aims to streamline procedures and allocate time effectively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2223036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24107847940622-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24107847940622-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}