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Judge Juan Merchan on Friday granted a 30-day postponement of the Manhattan preliminary hearing to give Trump enough time to review more than 100,000 documents that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has released. That set of documents includes phone data, emails, and bank records of former Trump attorney and "stacked" Michael Cohen, for which the Trump team waited until January to formally request. The defense is likely looking at these documents to find ways to counter Cohen during the trial, as he is considered a key witness in Manhattan prosecutor Elvin Bragg's case.

According to a recent report by the Daily Beast

, Trump's lawyers were able to obtain the documents from the Justice Department despite Merchan's decision in December to deny the request, calling it an "unrestricted invasion of confidential records" to "discredit witnesses." Merchan specifically deemed the attempt to obtain Cohen's documents an "invasion" that "cannot be justified." But the Beast reported that the SDNY has reached a compromise: Trump has obtained some of the requested documents, but anything that must be turned over to defense attorneys will first be reviewed by Bragg's office. Damian Williams, the head of the SDNY's prosecutor's office, also had the power to determine what materials Trump's team would have access to and refused to provide some of Cohen's materials.

Williams did not agree to provide the Trump team with Cohen's 2012-2016 tax returns, calling them "less relevant or material than the requests denied by Judge Merchan. The tax returns contain information about millions of dollars that Cohen failed to report to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, leading to his indictment for federal tax evasion. In 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for his involvement in making hush payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump before the 2016 election. Trump is currently on trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to the scheme, and Cohen's testimony could be devastating for the former president.Williams' office, however, provided Trump's team with all information from two of Cohen's phones, indicating