Donald Trump This Friday, he described Judge Juan Merchan’s decision as an “illegitimate political attack.” order the reading of the sentence for irregular payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels ten days after assuming the Presidency of the United States.
“This illegitimate political attack is nothing more than a rigged farce. ‘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, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.”Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social.
Merchant “He has so little respect for the Constitution that he keeps an illegal censorship order in force against me, his president and president-elect, just so that he cannot expose his disqualifying and illegal conflicts and those of his family”added Trump, who will take office on January 20.
This Friday, the judge rejected the request from the New York magnate’s defense to dismiss this case, of which he was found guilty last May, arguing that the Supreme Court ruling that grants immunity to US presidents should be applied to him.
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Claiming that there are “concerns about the doctrine of presidential immunity”Merchan ordered the defendant to appear “in person or virtually” next Friday at 9:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. GMT) to hear the sentence, although he already anticipates that it will not include a prison sentence.
For his part, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement that the order issued by Merchan “in the Manhattan prosecutor’s witch hunt is a direct violation of the Supreme Court’s immunity decision and other long-standing jurisprudence”.
Cheung stressed that “President Trump must be allowed to continue the presidential transition process and carry out the vital duties of the presidency without being obstructed by the remnants of this (case) or any remnants of the witch hunt.”.
“This lawless case should never have been filed and the Constitution requires that it be dismissed immediately.”he stressed, adding that the Republican “will continue fighting these hoaxes until they are all dead”.
“It seems appropriate at this juncture to make known this Court’s inclination not to impose a prison sentence, a sentence authorized by his guilt but which the Prosecutor’s Office no longer views as a practical recommendation.”the judge reasons in his considerations.