Trump says judge won’t let him attend son’s graduation

Donald Trump is learning a hard lesson: Criminal defendants don’t get to set their own schedules. Three times on Monday the former president asked Justice Juan Merchan to cut him loose from his hush money trial to attend to other matters — some personal, some political and some legal. Three times the judge responded with, essentially, “eh, we’ll see.” READ MORE: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/16/trump-trial-reality-criminal-defendant-00152421