Former President Trump is seeking to move his criminal case from New York state court to federal court, his attorneys say.
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to move his criminal case from New York state court to federal court, his attorneys said during a hearing on Thursday.
The Manhattan district attorney's office did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment. During the hearing, attorneys for the Manhattan district attorney's office and Trump reiterated previous arguments regarding the proposed protective order.last week asking the judge, New York County Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, to ensure that discovery materials in the case can be used by the defense only for trial. She asked that Trump be permitted to view evidence only in the presence of his lawyers and be barred from having his own copies of those documents.
Trump, McCaw said, has already begun mounting similar attacks in the criminal case, noting his public attacks against witnesses as well as Manhattan District Attorney, the DA’s office personnel and the court. She also pointed to a separate federal investigation that Trump is under for allegedly mishandling classified documents, which she said shows a “pattern” that “gives rise to significant concern that Defendant will similarly misuse grand jury and other sensitive materials here.
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