Posted on 08/15/2024 11:53:46 AM PDT by thegagline
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday urged the judge overseeing his Manhattan criminal hush money case to delay the former president’s sentencing until after November’s presidential election.The request came one day after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s latest demand that the judge step aside from the case, clearing the way for the Republican presidential candidate to learn his fate as soon as Sept. 18.The lawyers argued for the sentencing to be paused to allow Trump time to appeal if Merchan, in a decision expected by Sept. 16, declines to toss the conviction based on the US Supreme Court’s July 1 ruling immunizing presidents for “official acts” taken in office.
Trump’s attorneys claim the trial was “tainted” by evidence from the business mogul’s time in the White House, including the then-president admitting that he was relieved that porn star Stormy Daniels’ account of having sex with him while he was married only came out after the 2016 election.
*** The letter rehashes familiar Trump talking points, such as claiming that the case is “election interference.” It also argues that delaying the sentencing until after the election will “mitigate” allegations — which a state ethics panel has called unfounded — that Merchan cannot be fair and impartial due to his daughter’s past consulting work for Democrats.***
A jury of 12 Manhattanites convicted Trump, 78, in May of falsifying business records by concealing a $130,000 payout to Daniels as part of a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by buying up and burying stories that could have become sex scandals.
Trump faces up to four years in prison, but experts say that he’s more likely to get probation or community service. ***
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Keep in mind that this judge violated the rules of judicial by contributing $15 earmarked for the Biden campaign, and making two $10 contributions, one earmarked to the Progressive Turnout Project, a voter outreach organization, and another to Stop Republicans, a subsidiary of the Progressive Turnout Project.
Democrat democracy in action pure communism control at any cost.
Shots at the justice system?.
It’’s a two-step process for democrats.
First, convict Trump and use that conviction during the campaign to call him a convicted criminal.
Second...
Imprison Trump in order to call him a prisoner.
It was all planned and they ain’t gonna stop with just the first step.
It’s a certainty that Trump will be sentenced to prison. `100%.
If jailed, expect another assassination attempt.
And the SCOTUS won’t step in and stop this insane, utterly ridiculous kangaroo / soviet sham.
That Columbian “judge” needs his ass thrown in jail for interfering with the American election. Damn wetback. Just because some low I.Q. government bureaucrat gave him a piece of paper making him a “U.S. citizen”, it doesn’t make the boy an American. It takes more than a piece of paper.
Not if we can get the convicts to keep a close eye on the SS.
NO WAY IN HELL Merchan is passing up this chance to be the most historic judge in US history. He will be the one “who saved democracy” by locking up “literally Hitler.” Monuments will be built to him. Fame and fortune will be showered on him. He will travel the world in luxury to rub shoulders with the Obamas and the rich and famous.
And imagine the phone calls he is getting from Pelosi.
Skip the jail and go directly to firing squad.
Only way this shit stops is showing them they will be executed for it.
And, if another assassination attempt happens and is successful, expect that there will be a hot civil war. And it’s not going to be pretty.
The filthy punk judge knows that that's his ticket to a $30 million book deal.
We will find out if the Deep State Democrats have sufficiently intimidated the Supreme Court. How much dirt do you think they have on each of the justices?
Merchan allowing Stormy Daniels to talk at length about the supposed sexual encounter (which Trump denies ever happened) had the desired effect—very many people, maybe most, assume there was such an encounter. They aren’t shrewd enough to realize that even a fabricated claim of an encounter would have cost Trump a lot of votes. But it appears uncertain that Trump knew about the NDA before the election.
You have to admire how the “Nikki Haley/Liz Cheney” wing of the GOP has managed to get the Democrats to do their dirty work for them.
This is about the immunity USSC issue. They make it sound like Trump is only asking for a delay b/c of the election—there are new legal issue to be addressed.
More NYT propaganda.
So true, FTA:
Typically, defendants in New York state trials are not allowed to appeal their convictions until after they are sentenced. But Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued Thursday that the Supreme Court’s ruling — which found that presidential immunity is “appealable before trial” — effectively bars Merchan from sentencing Trump until appeals courts resolve the immunity issue “fully and finally.”
The democraps want to convict President Trump of ducking the bullet.
I think they will toss Trump under the jail sadly.
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