Why was Trump's Stormy Daniels sentencing delayed until September?

It was announced at the end of May that the former president of the United States had been found guilty in the criminal case involving the “Stormy Daniels” case, and his sentence was scheduled to be handed down on July 11. On the other hand, the ruling that the Supreme Court made regarding presidential immunity has caused a stir.

It was originally supposed to take place over the course of nine days, but on Tuesday, July 2, the sentencing hearing for the criminal trial of Donald Trump for making covert payments to porn star Stormy Daniels was moved to September 18. This is the first result of the decision that was made by the Supreme Court of the United States the day before, which extended the immunity of the former president of the United States of America.

“The July 11 sentencing date is therefore vacated” and “adjourned to September 18 if still necessary,” New York Magistrate Juan Merchan wrote in a ruling that was communicated to the parties and made public on Tuesday. This decision was taken around six weeks before the date of the presidential election on November 5.

This significantly reduces the amount of time that the contender for the White House will have to devote to the legislative process in the near future. Because the penalty, which can be as long as four years in jail, was supposed to be announced four days before the Republican convention, which is scheduled to take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from July 15 to July 18, and during which Donald Trump is supposed to be officially invested as the presidential candidate, the sentence was initially supposed to be announced.

Trump is a “total exoneration” in this case.

The decision was reached by Judge Merchan, who presided over the trial of Donald Trump in April and May, which was the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States. The decision was made just hours after the Manhattan prosecutor’s office stated that it was open to a postponement.

His attorneys wrote a letter to Judge Merchan on Monday, in the wake of the decision made by the Supreme Court, requesting that the historic verdict that was handed down on May 30 by a jury that was unanimous in its decision be overturned. The former president had been found guilty of thirty-four offenses of falsifying accounting records in order to conceal from voters the payment of 130,000 dollars (120,000 euros) to the porn star Stormy Daniels at the conclusion of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Republican millionaire promptly responded by declaring in all capital letters that this is a “TOTAL EXONERATION” on his Truth Social network. However, the magistrate has clearly not yet made a decision about the specifics of the request.

An attempt to derail a portion of the case had already been made by the defense, but it had been unsuccessful. However, the ruling that was handed down the day before by the Supreme Court, which is comprised of conservatives and has a majority, reshuffles the cards for the attorneys. According to this decision, the President of the United States “is entitled to at least a presumption of immunity for his official acts.”

“During the trial and closing arguments, the prosecution placed a highly prejudicial emphasis on evidence derived from official acts such as testimony about events that occurred in the Oval Office … social media posts (on Donald Trump’s accounts as president) and phone records involving Donald Trump while he was in office in 2017,” they contend in a document that is part of their appeal preparation, released on Tuesday for public consumption. Despite the fact that these arguments are regarded as “without merit” by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, they did not oppose the request to be considered.

When Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, received $130,000 at the very end of the campaign to keep quiet about a sexual relationship she claims to have had with the Republican businessman in 2016, which the latter denies, Donald Trump was only a candidate in the 2016 presidential election. Stormy Daniels’s real name is Stephanie Clifford.

Michael Cohen, who had been confidant to the campaign in the past, had been the one to pay the money. On the other hand, the prosecutions for fraudulent accounting stem from the reimbursement that Donald Trump gave to his loyal lieutenant in 2017, while he was still serving as president of the United States.

An alternative penalty, such as a suspended sentence, may be imposed by the judge in the event that Donald Trump, who is 78 years old, is sentenced to prison. An appeal will be possible for the Republican candidate, but in any event, this would be a situation that has never occurred before for a candidate running for the White House.

Why was Trump’s Stormy Daniels sentencing delayed until September?

By b0oua

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