Trump criminal sentencing delay OK with Manhattan DA

02 July 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Office has told New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan he will not oppose Donald Trump’s request to delay his July 11 sentencing after a jury found the ex-president guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in an unlawful attempt to conceal hush money payments in a sex scandal to help the 2016 presidential campaign that put him in the White House.

Hours after right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled presidents have “absolute” immunity for “official” acts, attorneys for Donald Trump filed a motion to start the process of attempting to have his sentence tossed out in the State of New York’s successful prosecution convicting the ex-president of 34 criminal felonies.

“Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit,” attorneys for Bragg’s Office wrote in a letter (below) to Judge Merchan, “we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion. We respectfully request a deadline of July 24, 2024- two weeks after defendant’s requested deadline—to file and serve a response.”

Trump’s attorneys claim the Supreme Court’s ruling of newly-found absolute presidential immunity, which experts note appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution, applies to the prosecution in Trump’s New York case. He was to be sentenced in just nine days, possibly to prison.

“The effort to set aside the conviction might be a long shot. The Manhattan case centers on acts Mr. Trump took as a candidate, not a president,” The New York Times reported on Monday.

Read the letter from Bragg’s Office and watch MSNBC’s report below or both at this link.

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