A Manhattan judge will postpone Donald Trump's sentencing on his conviction in the 'hush money' case and consider halting the case altogether given that voters elected Trump president. said.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchand said Trump's decision to proceed with such a lawsuit involving the president-elect would impede an “orderly transition of executive power” and would be “uniquely destabilizing” in Manhattan. He said he would consider the lawyers' arguments.
The decision to suspend Trump's sentencing creates a strong chance that the president-elect will return to the White House largely unscathed from four criminal cases that threatened to derail his campaign and potentially land him in prison. It's getting higher.
Marchand ordered Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Trump's lawyers to file arguments in December on whether the case should be thrown out before the court rules.
Mr. Bragg argued that the verdict should stand because the case was filed while Mr. Trump was a private citizen.
The postponement of the sentencing comes after President Trump, 78, spent six weeks in a dingy Manhattan courtroom listening to sordid testimony from witnesses like porn star Stormy Daniels, who testified she had sex with him. It follows a two-year legal battle that culminated in a spectacular spectacle. In 2006.
Jurors heard that Mr. Trump worked with former fixer Michael Cohen and the National Enquirer to reveal intimate stories about Daniels' short time and a month-long affair with Playboy Playmate Karen McDougall. We have confirmed evidence that the rights to damaging information about Mr. Trump, such as stories, were bought up and buried. Long affair with Trump.
“What do I have to pay for this? Fifty-tenths?” Mr. Trump told Mr. Cohen in a secretly made recording, apparently referring to Mr. McDougal's $150,000 compensation.
The guilty verdict against Trump in May branded him a convicted felon in the final months of his presidential campaign, but the president-elect used it as a rally to his supporters, He claimed that the incident was a “witch hunt” orchestrated against President Trump. Democratic Party.
Trump's campaign announced that it had raised a “record-breaking” $34.8 million in small donations in the hours after a jury found Trump guilty.
President Trump was originally scheduled to be sentenced on July 10, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president could not be prosecuted for “official acts” after taking office, halting that plan. Made me crazy.
Mr Bragg's office insisted the judgment was “unrelated” to the hush money case, but Mr Marchand postponed the decision to September 18 to give both sides time to resolve the issue.
Marchan later postponed sentencing to November, citing his “unjustified” claim that his decision to punish Trump may have been based on politics rather than law so close to the election. did.
Trump's other three criminal cases have stalled or been closed.
Federal lawsuits in Washington, D.C. and Florida, which accuse President Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election results and storing classified files at his Mar-a-Lago mansion, respectively, are expected to be dismissed on his first day in office. , if not before.
Meanwhile, a state lawsuit in Georgia over Trump's alleged attempt to overturn the election results has stalled over a dispute over the district attorney's hiring of a man with whom he had a romantic relationship to lead the case. Not even close yet.
