Donald Trump continues to avoid condemnation for the past. Judge Juan Merchan, in charge of the case, has decided to indefinitely postpone the sentence with the sentence to be imposed on the elected president. The sentencing was scheduled for Tuesday, November 26. Initially, the sentencing date was July 11. It was caused by a first delay, until September. The judge decided later and the new date was November 26. Now, it is postponed indefinitely.
The judge has also agreed to the request of Trump’s defense to present a new motion to dismiss the case, giving the Republican’s lawyers a deadline to present their documents before December 2. Prosecutors must respond by December 9. Trump’s team wanted to have until December 20 to submit their paperwork.
Trump was found guilty by a popular jury of . He intended to hide the payments of $130,000 to porn film actress Stormy Daniels—so that she would remain silent and not harm her electoral chances in the 2016 presidential elections. Falsifying business records is punishable by up to four years in prison, although the sentences for each of the crimes can be served simultaneously. In cases like Trump’s – not to mention that he is now the president-elect – it was already unlikely that the convicted person would have to go to prison. Typically, you are placed on probation or fined.
Furthermore, Trump’s own election leaves the fulfillment of any hypothetical sentence up in the air. “Just as a sitting president is completely immune from any criminal prosecution, so is President Trump as president-elect,” Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued in court. They also argue that he cannot be sentenced after his term in office because too much time will have passed. Both Blanche and Bove have been nominated by Trumo for senior positions in the Justice Department.
The jury’s verdict made Trump the first former president to be convicted of a crime. When he takes office on January 20, if the conviction stands, he will be the first convicted felon to become president.
The former president’s defense strategy has been based on delaying and delaying cases until after the elections. With his maneuvers, Trump has avoided sitting in the dock in his three other criminal trials, from which he can escape by becoming president.
In the New York case, the only one for which he has gone to trial, he first tried to annul the conviction under the doctrine of the Supreme Court ruling that granted. After that ruling, Judge Merchan gave the parties time to present his allegations and provisionally set September 18 as a new date for sentencing and September 16 for ruling on immunity. Then, those dates have been pushed back. It has not yet even ruled on whether the doctrine of immunity affects this case.
Trump’s lawyers now add to the immunity doctrine the Justice Department’s practice of not pursuing sitting presidents. By analogy, his lawyers believe it should also apply to an elected president.
