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Trump seeks 6-month delay in $250 million fraud lawsuit

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Save America rally on Oct. 1, 2022, in Warren, Michigan. (Photo by Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump wants to postpone a trial in the New York attorney general’s $250 million fraud suit against him, his family and his business empire at least six months, deep into the next campaign season.

The request became public on Friday in a 28-page legal brief by Trump’s team, seeking to postpone the fact discovery deadline until Sept. 29, 2023, and the expert discovery deadline to Dec. 8, 2023.

The latter date, which is only for the end of the pre-trial information-sharing process, is well after the scheduled trial date of Oct. 2, 2023.

It’s also roughly half a year since the initially scheduled culmination of the discovery process: June 5, 2023.

The request is hardly a done deal and must be approved by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who previously found Trump in contempt for flouting a subpoena in the investigation that preceded the lawsuit’s filing.

Justice Engoron previously signaled plans to stick to that trial date “come hell or high water.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who sued Trump, his business and his family in September, will likely oppose any delay.

Her lawsuit accuses Trump of a decade-long scheme in which the former president, his adult children and the Trump Organization allegedly committed “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation in the preparation of Mr. Trump’s annual statements of financial condition” from 2011 to 2021.

Bolstered by the Trump Organization’s criminal conviction, the lawsuit seeks tough penalties for the Trump dynasty apart from the requested $250 million fine, including an order permanently barring Trump, Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump from serving as an officer or director in any New York corporation.

James previously won a preliminary ruling ordering a court-appointed monitor to oversee the Trump Organization pending trial — and wants a ruling extending monitoring for five years.

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