Former President Trump is seeking to push back sentencing in his criminal hush money case until after the 2024 presidential election, arguing that the current sentencing date of Sept. 18 advances what his attorneys call prosecutors’ “naked election-interference objectives.”
Judge Juan Merchan has already delayed sentencing once, at Trump’s request, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on presidential immunity.
Trump was originally scheduled to be sentenced on July 11. Judge Merchan ruled last month that he would rule on Trump’s immunity claim on Sept. 16 and impose sentencing two days later.
Judge Merchan has been a real wild card. I honestly do not have any idea what he’ll do here.
I hope Trump’s comment to Musk that their next interview might be in Venezuela comes back to bite him, big time. The judge can use that comment directly to justify needing to toss him in Rikers for a short time, to make sure he can’t possibly avoid accountability. I keep reminding everyone about this, but Rikers is so horrible that NYC has been trying to shut it down for years. I think even a week there, even in isolation so the SS can still protect him, might break him.
What I dearly want, even more than him losing the election or going to jail, is for him to be held accountable for he shit he says. It’s why the defamation case really got under his skin after all. Until these verdicts happened, he hasn’t been held accountable to anyone since his father died. And that even includes his time as President, when the GOP protected him against two impeachments.