The former president has recently complained about his New York trial keeping him off the campaign trail. He has no public campaign events scheduled Wednesday.
Would that not irritate the judge? How do you trust a defendant who lies about what they present as legitimate scheduling conflicts? They could just continue to make shit up and delay the trial. I'm sure there are plenty of excuses to dig up involving family he usually ignores who are suddenly in poor health, etc. Hell, he could hospitalize one of them just to point to...
I can already see it in front of me. "Your honor, I am sorry but I can come to court on May 17 because (looks at a little piece of paper) of the beautiful graduation of Barron. Looks confused to his lawyer and asking "who is Barron ?"