Former President Trump is scheduled to participate in a virtual interview with New York probation officers on Monday ahead of his sentencing hearing next month, his campaign confirmed.
The former president and presumptive Republican presidential candidate was convicted last week on all 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records in a six-week trial that stemmed from charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Trump will be interviewed via video conference.
Pre-sentence probation interviews are often conducted to allow the judge to learn more about the defendant and to prepare a report that may help determine an appropriate punishment for the crime.
Trump says guilty verdict is a ‘scar’ on New York’s justice system, vows to ‘keep fighting’
Former US President Donald Trump, accompanied by lawyers Todd Blanche and Emile Bove, appears for his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Trump was indicted last year on 34 counts of falsifying business records, which prosecutors say were an attempt to cover up potential sex scandals around the time of the 2016 presidential election. Trump is the first former US president to face trial on criminal charges. (Jabin Botsford/Pool via Reuters)
Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where he is expected to be formally nominated as the GOP’s 2024 presidential candidate.
“President Trump has established a commanding polling lead in battleground states and Bad Joe Biden is in a bind. His Democratic allies know it, so they continue to intensify their ongoing witch hunt, further abusing and misusing the power of their offices to interfere in the presidential election,” Trump campaign communications director Steven Chang told Fox News Digital. “President Trump and his legal team have already taken the necessary steps to challenge and thwart the lawless Manhattan District Attorney’s lawsuit. The American people will not be fooled by Biden’s orchestrated hoax, and they will hold Bad Joe and his cohorts accountable this fall.”
Citing the 2024 election and the first debate with President Biden scheduled for later this month, as well as his and his supporters’ First Amendment rights, Trump continues to ask Judge Juan Marchand to lift a gag order restricting him from speaking about witnesses and the case now that the trial is over.
Trump found guilty on all charges in New York criminal trial
Judge Marchan issued a gag order to Trump before the trial began, prohibiting him from making any public statements or directing others to speak about the potential participation of witnesses, any attorneys in the case other than Bragg, or any court staff, district attorney’s office staff, or family members of staff.
Trump’s team repeatedly challenged the order but was turned down.
Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. The jury verdict in Trump’s hush-money criminal trial is entering its second day, with jurors grappling with the crucial task of assessing the former president’s guilt or innocence along with the facts of the case. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Poole)
Trump was fined $10,000 during his trial for violating the censorship, and Marchant also threatened to imprison him for any further violations.
“I don’t want to go to jail,” Marchand said. “You’re [the] Former president and possibly the next president.”
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“I understand the seriousness of this sentence,” Marchan said during the hearing. “Your continued and willful violations of the court’s orders … constitute a direct attack … which cannot be allowed to continue … cannot be allowed to continue.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
