The judge overseeing President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York has postponed the sentencing in the case and is giving his lawyers the chance to argue now that the conviction should be thrown out because he won the election.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who Trump’s team tried to have removed form the case over allegations of bias, did not schedule a future sentencing date in Friday’s one-page order canceling next week’s sentencing hearing.
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“In a decisive win for President Trump, the hoax Manhattan Case is now fully stayed and sentencing is adjourned,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s Communications Director. “President Trump won a landslide victory as the American People have issued a mandate to return him to office and dispose of all remnants of the Witch Hunt cases.”
“All of the sham lawfare attacks against President Trump are now destroyed and we are focused on Making America Great Again,” he continued.
The Washington Post reported that Merchan is allowing Trump’s lawyers to make their case for why the conviction should be thrown out now in light of his re-election due to the interference that it would cause in his ability to execute his role as president.
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“Just as a sitting President is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as President-elect,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in a letter filed this week.
The case, which was filed by George Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, was always considered by far the weakest that Trump faced as many Democrats even voiced serious concerns about it, noting that it likely never would have been brought if Trump was not running for president.
The two federal cases that Trump faced from special counsel Jack Smith are rapidly coming to an end since the Department of Justice is not able to prosecute a case against a sitting president.
