Prosecutors call for Trump hush money trial to start on April 15

In one batch of 31,000 documents turned over to Mr Trump’s lawyers last week, fewer than 270 were relevant to Mr Trump’s case and had not previously been disclosed to his lawyers, prosecutors said

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump Picture: Jeff Dean/AP

New York prosecutors urged a judge to start Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial on April 15, saying the defence’s calls for further delays or dismissal of the case because of a last-minute evidence disclosure were a “red herring”.

The vast majority of evidence that the Republican former president’s lawyers received in recent weeks, more than 100,000 pages from a previous federal investigation into the matter, was “entirely immaterial, duplicative or substantially duplicative” of evidence they had already been given, prosecutors said.