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Ten days before defendant Donald Trump is set to go on trial in his hush money case in a Lower Manhattan criminal courtroom, he and his attorneys are fixing for the judge to recuse himself. And they’re doing so by raising concerns about past political contributions he made all the way to quoted comments he said in an article. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann believes the ammunition to get a recusal is weak. “That is, again, laughable,” he said, adding “the audience for this brief is not the court, it is the court of public opinion — and just a sliver of that court of public opinion.”…

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