Trump has another run-in with the law, won’t be convicted of hush money until after the election
Donald Trump will not be convicted of the 34 serious crimes he committed. convicted in May until after the election, giving him more time to try to overturn the conviction and allow him to run again without having to stand trial in prison.
On Friday, Judge Juan Commerce, Trump’s criminal case supervisor in Manhattan, postpone sentencing is set for November 26—three weeks after the 2024 election and more than two months after the September 18 date Trump was originally supposed to learn his fate. That date itself has been delayed—the former president’s original sentencing date was set for July 11, but Trump’s lawyers have asked for a delay.
In his judgment, Merchan cited the “unique time frame in which this matter now finds itself”, saying: “This is not a decision that this court has reached lightly but in this court’s view it is the decision that best promotes the interests of justice”. He added that the court is “a fair, impartial and apolitical institution” and that “the integrity of our judicial system requires” that the judgment be “free from distraction or distortion”.
In response to the news, the Trump campaign said “there should be no conviction at all” and criticized “election interference” and a “witch hunt.”[s]” for what is, conservatively, the billionth time since Trump was charged with 34 Class E felonies stemming from the hush money deal paid to Storm Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.
Trump and his legal team are now trying to overturn his May conviction following the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents free to commit federal crimes as long as those crimes were within their “official” duties. That argument recently failed when Team Trump used it to try to move its Manhattan case to federal court, with Judge Alvin Hellerstein “Nothing in the Supreme Court’s opinion affects my previous conclusion that hush payments are private, informal acts that fall outside the scope of executive power,” he wrote.
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