Former President Donald J. Trump’s hush-money trial has been scheduled to begin on March 25th, in the middle of the Republican primary season, a New York judge ruled on Thursday. This will be Trump’s first criminal case out of four, where he’ll go to trial in a Manhattan court on the charges of covering up a sex scandal to aid his 2016 presidential bid. The other cases will take place in Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. This is the first-ever criminal case against a former president. “Instead of being in South Carolina and other states campaigning, I’m here,” said Trump. “I’ll be here du…