Donald Trump will go on trial starting March 25 for the New York criminal case by which he’s accused of falsifying business data associated to a hush cash payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels, a decide mentioned Tuesday.

That trial is set to start amid the presidential major season and fewer than eight months before the 2024 election. Trump, who has pleaded not responsible, is at the moment searching for the Republican nomination for that race.

He is the primary American president, former or in any other case, to face criminal prices.

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan introduced the trial schedule for the trial as Trump appeared in court docket through a video hook-up for a listening to within the case Tuesday.

Merchan warned Trump that he could possibly be sanctioned if he violates an order that restricts his capacity to make public proof and different materials associated to the criminal case.

The decide earlier this month issued that protecting order after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office raised what it known as substantial issues that Trump would “inappropriately” use the fabric or submit it on social media.

Merchan advised prosecutors to file their pre-trial motions by Aug. 29, and gave Trump’s attorneys till Oct. 10 to file their responses. Merchan mentioned he would rule on the motions on Jan. 4, at a listening to the place Trump must seem in individual. 

A spokesman for Trump’s marketing campaign and an legal professional for Trump within the case didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from CNBC.

Trump was indicted in late March by a grand jury, which accused him of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data.

Those data mischaracterized the character of funds related to reimbursements Trump and his firm, the Trump Organization, made to his former legal professional Michael Cohen after Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 shortly before the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels, in trade for that cash, agreed to maintain quiet about her allegation of getting had intercourse with Trump on time a decade earlier, months after his spouse Melania had given beginning to Barron Trump. Donald Trump denies having intercourse with the grownup movie star.

The indictment says these funds to Daniels and one by the writer of The National Enquirer to Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal had been a part of an effort to maintain their claims of sexual trysts with Trump from affecting his possibilities in opposition to Democrat Hillary Clinton within the 2016 election.

Trump faces three different pending criminal investigations, all of which carry the danger of prices being filed in opposition to him.

In Georgia, the Fulton Country district legal professional is weighing whether or not to hunt an indictment of Trump and others for their efforts to get state officers to successfully overturn President Joe Biden’s victory within the 2020 election in Georgia.

The U.S. Department of Justice individually is investigating Trump for the try and reverse his loss to Biden within the nationwide Electoral College outcomes that 12 months, and his conduct as much as and the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol. The DOJ is also probing Trump’s refusal to give up a whole bunch of presidency data, lots of them categorised, after he left the White House.

– Additional reporting by CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger