Former President Trump’s first criminal trial is set to begin late next month. A New York judge announced that Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. With the decision, the judge turned aside requests for a delay from the former president’s defense lawyers. Trump’s attorneys blasted the decision to keep the March date, complaining that he will have to stand trial in New York during the presidential primary season. Trump, who was in the Manhattan courtroom, is accused of falsifying business records in a hush money case.