Former President Donald Trump will ask a judge Monday to delay or dismiss his trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, citing thousands of pages of potential evidence about witness Michael Cohen that prosecutors turned over only weeks ago.
Cohen, Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, made a $130,000 payment to silence adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she said they had a decade earlier – an encounter Trump denies.
Lawyers for Trump accuse Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which brought the criminal charges, of trying to bury documents that could help them challenge Cohen’s credibility.
The documents came from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan, which previously investigated the payment but did not charge Trump. Cohen testified Trump directed him to make the payment and…
