The judge in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case on Friday turned down the former president맥스카지노�s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.Among other things, Trump's lawyers had argued that the jury pool was deluged with what the defense saw as 맥스카지노�exceptionally prejudicial맥스카지노� news coverage of the case. The defense maintained that was a reason to hold off the case indefinitely.Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump 맥스카지노�appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality."Pointing to Trump's two federal defamation trials and a state civil business fraud trial in Manhattan within the past year, Merchan wrote that the ex-president himself 맥스카지노�was personally responsible for generating much, if not most, of the surrounding publicity with his public statements" outside those courtrooms and on social media.맥스카지노�The situation Defendant finds himself in now is not new to him and at least in part, of his own doing,맥스카지노� the judge added. He said questioning of prospective jurors would address any concerns about their ability to be fair and impartial.Messages seeking comment were left with Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers. The Manhattan district attorney맥스카지노�s office, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment.Trump, meanwhile, said Friday that he planned to testify at the trial, calling the case a 맥스카지노�scam.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�All I can do is tell the truth,맥스카지노� Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. 맥스카지노�And the truth is, they have no case.맥스카지노�Asked about jury selection, Trump said the process is 맥스카지노�largely luck.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�It depends who you get,맥스카지노� Trump said.맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s very unfair that I맥스카지노�m having a trial there,맥스카지노� he said, reiterating complaints he has made about the judge.In a court filing last month, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche had argued that 맥스카지노�potential jurors in Manhattan have been exposed to huge amounts of biased and unfair media coverage relating to this case.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�Many of the potential jurors already wrongfully believe that President Trump is guilty,맥스카지노� Blanche added, citing the defense's review of media articles and other research it conducted.Blanche said the review found 1,223 articles published online about the case from mid-January to late February and that many of them 맥스카지노�unfairly and improperly 맥스카지노�demonized맥스카지노�" Trump. However, a chart included in a defense submission included many mentions of terms relevant to the case, such as 207 references to 맥스카지노�Manhattan Trial맥스카지노� and 142 to 맥스카지노�Hush Money Payments.맥스카지노�Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers also blamed key prosecution witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels for driving negative coverage of Trump. They pointed to Cohen맥스카지노�s withering criticism of Trump on his podcasts and social media feeds and to publicity surrounding the release of a documentary about Daniels, which premiered last month on the NBC streaming service Peacock.Prosecutors contended that publicity wasn맥스카지노�t likely to wane and that Trump맥스카지노�s own comments generated a lot of it. Prosecutors also noted that there are more than 1 million people in Manhattan, arguing that jury questioning could surely locate 12, plus six alternates, who could be impartial.Trump맥스카지노�s hush money case is the first of his four criminal indictments slated to go to trial and would be the first criminal trial ever of a former president.He is accused of doctoring his company맥스카지노�s records to hide the real reason for payments to Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer who helped the candidate bury negative claims about him during his 2016 campaign. Cohen맥스카지노�s activities included paying porn actor Daniels $130,000 to suppress her story of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier, which Trump denies.Trump pleaded not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses.Trump's lawyers had lobbed other, sometimes similar, arguments for delays at an appeals court this week. One of those appeals sought to put the trial on hold until the appellate court could give full consideration to the defense's argument that it needs to be moved elsewhere, on the grounds that the jury pool has been polluted by news coverage of Trump맥스카지노�s other recent cases.Trump's lawyers also maintain that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee faces 맥스카지노�real potential prejudice맥스카지노� in heavily Democratic Manhattan.All this week's appeals were turned down by individual appellate judges, though the matters are headed to a panel of appeals judges for further consideration.Along with their claims about pretrial publicity, Trump맥스카지노�s lawyers took issue with the recent prosecution of former Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg for lying in the civil fraud case. They accused the Manhattan DA's office of deploying 맥스카지노�unethical, strong-armed tactics against an innocent man in his late 70s맥스카지노� while turning 맥스카지노�a blind eye맥스카지노� to perjury allegations against Cohen.Merchan, whom Trump's lawyers accused of pressuring Weisselberg into a previous guilty plea, said the new claim 맥스카지노�compels this Court 맥스카지노� again, to express its continuing and growing alarm over counsel맥스카지노�s practice of making serious allegations and representations that have no apparent basis in fact 맥스카지노� or at least are unsupported by a legitimate basis of knowledge.맥스카지노�__Associated Press reporter Jill Colvin in Palm Beach, Florida, contributed to this report.