Donald Trump’s sentencing in his Manhattan hush money criminal case has been delayed until after the November election.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s decision pushing the Sept. 18 sentencing to Nov. 26 means voters won’t know by Election Day the fate of the former president, who faces possible jail time in the case.
Trump, 78, faces up four years in prison after being convicted of 34 counts of felony falsifying business records — but legal experts say that he’s more likely to get probation or community service. Any sentence would have also likely been paused pending Trump’s appeal, experts say.
The case centered on Trump’s $130,000 payout to porn star Stormy Daniels in what jurors at trial found was a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.
