In a letter addressed this Tuesday to Judge Juan Merchan, the The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has lifted delay sentencing in the corruption case against porn actress Stormy Daniels until 2029. “Until the end of the defendant’s next presidential term”, as can be read in the text from the prosecution addressed to the judge. In the aforementioned letter, it was also accepted that Donald Trump’s sentencing be postponed to give him time to defend in court the dismissal of the aforementioned case. This is the second time that the sentence has been postponed. Donald Trump acknowledged in a statement, through Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump-Vance election campaign, that “This is a complete and definitive victory for President Trump and the American people who elected him in a landslide.”. The Manhattan district attorney recognized that this witch hunt could not continue. “This illegal case is now on hold and President Trump’s legal team is working to have it dismissed once and for all.”
asset He was convicted in May 2023 of 34 counts of falsifying business records.. These were payments made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimburse the $130,000 with which he had purchased the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels. SO, Cohen gave this amount to the actress money so that she would not talk about an alleged extramarital affair with Trump before the November 2016 election. However, Trump has denied the existence of an extramarital affair. These reimbursements were falsely recorded in the accounting records as “legal expenses”.
Last week, Merchan agreed to postpone a decision on whether to dismiss the case on grounds of “immunity” arising from a Supreme Court ruling. In this high court decision, dated July 1, Trump and any other president were partially shielded from criminal prosecution for actions considered “official” duties while in office, and established a presumption of ” immunity” for acts within the “outer perimeter” of these persons. “official” functions.
THE Trump’s lawyers argued that several pieces of evidence used against him during the porn actress’ financial trial fall within the scope of the High Court’s decision. They should therefore be dismissed and with them the whole affair..
In response, Manhattan prosecutors asked the judge to uphold the verdict because Trump was a U.S. citizen when he arranged the Stormy Daniels payment. He was then a candidate and had not yet won the 2016 presidential elections. In this sense, prosecutors argued that “no current law establishes that the temporary immunity of a president requires the dropping of criminal charges » for conduct when the president does not do so. it was.
