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Trump’s New Gambit to Delay His Trials Isn’t Quite Working<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s calendar is filling up—and not with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-vanishing-act-why-trump-rallies-are-going-extinct">campaign events</a>.</p> <p>The former president is battling conflicting trial dates in a number of courts, and judges are now hopping on the phone to coordinate their schedules. In fact, two judges may have already double-booked him. (In March, Trump has three weeks to wrap up a D.C. federal trial that’s potentially six weeks long—before he’s due in New York for a state trial.)</p> <p>But those private exchanges have caused some drama, particularly as Trump’s lawyers keep trying to push back his upcoming New York criminal trial for paying hush money to a porn star.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-gambit-to-delay-his-trials-isnt-quite-working">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty

Donald Trump’s calendar is filling up—and not with campaign events.

The former president is battling conflicting trial dates in a number of courts, and judges are now hopping on the phone to coordinate their schedules. In fact, two judges may have already double-booked him. (In March, Trump has three weeks to wrap up a D.C. federal trial that’s potentially six weeks long—before he’s due in New York for a state trial.)

But those private exchanges have caused some drama, particularly as Trump’s lawyers keep trying to push back his upcoming New York criminal trial for paying hush money to a porn star.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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