The looming hush-money trial is one of four criminal cases Trump is confronting ahead of the US election.
Trump's lawyers also asked the judge to explain $35 in political contributions in 2020.
He was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over allegations that he orchestrated payments to two women before the 2016 election
Trump entered the Manhattan courtroom to be formally charged on Tuesday in a watershed moment for the United States.
Tacopina said Trump and his defense team were surprised by news of the indictment.
"I bring hard cases when they are ready," Bragg said in a news conference, "Mark Pomerantz's case simply was not ready. So I said to my team, let's keep working."
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