Prosecutors propose delaying Trump hush-money trial set to start later in March Boston 25 News [Video]

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Thursday told a judge it would be willing to delay Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial in New York in order to allow the former president’s attorneys time to review recently obtained records.

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Jury selection in the case, which is focused on hush-money payments made before the 2016 election, is set to begin March 25.

In a notice filed Thursday in court, District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) turned over about 31,000 pages of new records on Wednesday and shared plans to share more documents by next week.

“Based on our initial review of yesterday’s production, those records appear to contain materials related to the subject matter of this case, including materials that the People requested from USAO more than a year ago and that the USAO previously declined to provide,” Bragg wrote.

He added that prosecutors were prepared to go to trial on March 25, but said that they …