Donald Trump, 78, was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 (£102,809) hush money payment his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump, who denies it.
The president-elect had been scheduled to be sentenced on 26 November, but justice Juan Merchan last week put all proceedings in the case on pause at the request of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
The prosecutors had asked for more time to consider next steps in the case, citing the need to balance the “competing interests” between having the criminal case go forward as normal and protecting the office of the president.
They are due to propose their next steps later today.
Motherfucker he is not president yet! He wasn’t even president-elect until this month! Do your fucking job and let the higher courts deal with the big questions!
We all knew this was going to happen. Even the optimists like myself figured it out when sentencing was scheduled after the election.