Former President Donald Trump and his legal team have been making a variety of arguments in the hope of delaying his trial in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.’s hush money case, from accusing Justice Juan Merchan of political bias to requesting a change of venue. Trump, his lawyers argued, cannot get a fair trial in liberal, Democrat-leaning New York City. But on April 8, Judge Lizbeth González of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division firmly declared that Trump’s “application for a stay of trial…. is denied.” And jury selection is still set to begin on Monday, April 15 in a …