Trump lawyers seek to delay hush-money sentencing
The Independent|August 16, 2024
Attempt to push decision back to after election in November
- GUSTAF KILANDER
Trump lawyers seek to delay hush-money sentencing

Donald Trump is seeking to have the sentencing in his hush-money trial delayed until after the November election. The former president’s lawyers argue in a letter that the current sentencing, scheduled for 18 September, allows prosecutors to meet “election-interference objectives”.

In May, Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal reimbursements for a hush-money payment made to pornographic actor Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. The jury found Trump guilty of attempting to corruptly influence the outcome of the election by preventing Daniels’ story about having sex with him in 2006 from seeing the light of day.

Following the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have some immunity from prosecution for official acts carried out while in office, Trump’s lawyers argued that the verdict should be thrown out because evidence shared during the trial should have been shielded from the jury.

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