Trump’s request to stop sentence in Stormy Daniels case is rejected

Judge Merchan denies suspension of sentence.

Trump is due to appear on January 10.

A convicted president will assume power.

Judge Juan Merchan rejected this Monday the request of the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, to paralyze the sentence against him.

Which is scheduled for this Friday in New York, in the case of irregular payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, in which he was convicted.

«This Court has considered the defendant’s arguments in support of his motion and finds them to be»

«That, for the most part, is a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past,» Merchan said today.

JUDGE MERCHAN REJECTS TRUMP’S PETITION TO FACE SENTENCE

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Merchan’s messages mean that Trump’s defense will have to go to the appeals court to try to stop the sentence, according to CNBC.

The sentence will be announced on January 10, ten days before Trump is sworn in for his second term as president.

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Trump’s lawyers told the judge in a document filed with the court yesterday and made public this Monday that the Republican plans to appeal the court’s ruling.

He also rejected their requests to annul the guilty verdict and dismiss the case, arguing that he has presidential immunity.

The charges and the sentence

In May 2024, Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to Daniels.

This before the November 2016 elections, which he won, to prevent an alleged extramarital affair from coming to light during the campaign.

According to Merchan’s ruling last week, the president-elect must appear «in person or virtually» at the reading of his sentence.

This at 9:30 local time (14:30 GMT), but he announced that it will not include a prison sentence.

Reactions of the defense and the president-elect

Trump’s lawyers had argued that the sentence should be automatically suspended. as they prepare their appeal of the recent decisions of Merchan, against whom the president-elect has frequently attacked.

Last Friday, Trump called the judge’s decision to schedule the sentencing for January 10 and call him to appear as an “illegitimate political attack.”

“’Acting’ Judge Merchan, who is a radical partisan, has just issued another order that is deliberately illegal, goes against our Constitution and, if allowed to remain in effect, would be the end of the presidency as it existed. we know,” he wrote on his social network, Truth Social.

This sentence will make history because it will be the first time that a president convicted of a serious crime assumes the highest office of the nation.

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