This is a legal victory for Donald Trump in an explosive case. The New York justice system, which criminally judged the president-elect guilty of concealed payments to the X-rated film actress Stormy Daniels, canceled the pronouncement of his sentence this Friday, November 22
Judge Juan Merchan decided to authorize the lawyers of the 45th and soon 47th American president, who will enter the White House on January 20, to present an appeal before December 2 to cancel the entire procedure and the trial which is taking place. was held in New York last spring.
The magistrate will make his decision on this procedural point on December 9, according to a court document made public on Friday, which still makes it possible, according to the analysis of Washington Posta very hypothetical sentence before January 20. In the meantime, the pronouncement of the sentence – possibly prison -, scheduled for November 26 after having been postponed twice since July, has been “postponed”.
Donald Trump’s spokesperson and future White House communications director, Steven Cheung, greeted the conservative channel’s website Fox News a “decisive victory” for the president-elect. “All attacks on President Trump are now destroyed and we are now focused on ‘Making America Great Again’ (Make America Great Again, MAGA, Editor’s note),” he said.
Donald Trump was convicted on May 30 in this case of “aggravated accounting falsification to conceal a conspiracy to pervert the 2016 election.”
Towards a freeze on prosecutions?
The Manhattan prosecutor’s office opened the way on Tuesday for this new postponement. Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg had indicated in a court document that he would oppose an outright annulment of the procedure, but that this question deserved to be examined, which would provoke a new postponement of the sentence. Going in line with the defense lawyers, Alvin Bragg even recognized that freezing all prosecutions “until the end of the presidential term” of the 47th President of the United States must be considered.
Of the four criminal proceedings targeting Donald Trump, this case is the only one in which a trial was held for the candidate in the November 5 presidential election which he won, an unprecedented scenario in American history. He was found guilty of hiding from voters the payment of $130,000 to the porn star. The goal was to prevent a sex scandal from breaking out at the very end of his victorious campaign in 2016 against Democrat Hillary Clinton.