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

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

He’s the primary American president, former or in any other case, to face felony fees.

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

Merchan warned Trump that he might be sanctioned if he violates an order that restricts his means to make public proof and different materials associated to the felony case.

The decide earlier this month issued that protecting order after the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace raised what it referred to as substantial issues that Trump would “inappropriately” use the fabric or publish it on social media.

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

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.

These data mischaracterized the character of funds linked to reimbursements Trump and his firm, the Trump Group, made to his former legal professional Michael Cohen after Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 shortly earlier than the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels, in alternate 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 delivery 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 Nationwide Enquirer to Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal have been a part of an effort to maintain their claims of sexual trysts with Trump from affecting his possibilities towards Democrat Hillary Clinton within the 2016 election.

Trump faces three different pending felony investigations, all of which carry the chance of fees being filed towards him.

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

The U.S. Division of Justice individually is investigating Trump for the try to reverse his loss to Biden within the nationwide Electoral Faculty 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, a lot of them labeled, after he left the White Home.

– Extra reporting by CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger