In victory for Trump, an appellate court in Manhattan grants a temporary stay in his October business-fraud trial

• Trump and Trump Org were due to start trial on October 2 over New York's accusations of widespread business fraud.
• Thursday, an appellate judge in Manhattan granted what may only be a temporary hold on that date. 
• The parties will now spend two weeks mired in an appellate-level, litigation side-show over Trump's claim that NY's case is too old.

In an interim victory for President Donald Trump, his family, and his real-estate company, an appellate judge in Manhattan on Thursday put a temporary hold on a massive, civil fraud trial that had been set to begin October 2.