Lawyers for ex-president ask Juan Merchan to recuse himself over alleged conflict of interest due to daughter’s work with Democrats
Donald Trump is again seeking to remove the judge overseeing his upcoming New York criminal trial from the case, arguing the judge’s daughter’s work for a political consultancy with Democratic clients poses a conflict of interest.The former president and Republican presidential candidate last year made a similar request for Juan Merchan to recuse himself, but the judge denied the bid after an ethics panel found that his daughter’s work did not pose reasonable questions about his impartiality.
In a one-page court filing dated 1 April and made public on Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers asked Merchan for permission to file a formal motion for him to recuse himself, arguing the trial would benefit his daughter’s firm, Authentic Campaigns, financially. “It can no longer be ignored that Authentic’s commercial interests are benefited by developments in this case,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 hush-money payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump.Stay up to date on all of Donald Trump’s trials.
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