Photo: Michael M. Santiago Getty Images via Agence France-Prese Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts in this high-profile trial for concealing bribes.
Published at 1:25 p.m. Updated at 3:27 p.m.
Republican candidate Donald Trump scored another major victory on Friday, with his sentencing in New York postponed until after the US presidential election.
Convicted of criminal charges in late May in New York, the former president will not be sentenced until November 26, three weeks after the election.
The septuagenarian welcomed this postponement, decided by a judge, assuring that he should now benefit from a dismissal in this case of concealed payments to a pornographic actress during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“The case should be closed,” he said on his Truth Social platform, claiming to have “done nothing wrong.”
The former president’s lawyers had requested a new delay following a resounding decision by the American Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, which broadened the scope of presidential criminal immunity.
At the end of a historic trial, the first criminal trial for a former president of the United States, Donald Trump was found guilty at the end of May of 34 offenses of falsifying accounting documents, intended to hide, just before his victory in the 2016 presidential election, a payment of $130,000 to a porn actress, Stormy Daniels.
The money had been paid to her so that she would keep quiet about a sexual relationship she said she had with him in 2006, which the person concerned has always denied.
Donald Trump faces criminal charges in three other cases, but no further trials will take place before the presidential election.
Friday’s ruling means that American voters will not know the Republican candidate’s sentence when they go to the polls or vote by mail.
In the case of hidden payments, Donald Trump theoretically faces a maximum sentence of a prison sentence, but many experts say the judge is more likely to hand down an alternative sentence to prison, such as a suspended sentence.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The decision came just minutes after Donald Trump gave a rambling speech about his legal troubles. He had called journalists to a press conference at Trump Tower in New York for no particular reason.
Sporting his traditional red tie, he spoke indiscriminately about his civil trial for sexual assault and his criminal conviction: “witch hunts” to prevent him from being elected, according to him. Without taking any questions from the press, the septuagenarian, seeming particularly annoyed, also attacked his lawyers, seated around him staring into space, saying they were “disappointed” with their work.
It was only after 40 minutes of this singular tirade that the Republican began to mention his rival Kamala Harris, assuring that he was “well ahead” in the polls for the presidential election on November 5.
The opinion polls are much more nuanced on this question, placing the two candidates neck and neck for the time being.
After this speech, the Republican must head to North Carolina, one of the most contested states in the presidential election, where the sending of the first mail-in ballots was postponed by a judge's decision. He will speak before a powerful police union.
The former president blames Joe Biden and the vice president for being responsible for a wave of crime linked to illegal immigration, which statistics contradict.
Security and immigration are nonetheless subjects on which Kamala Harris has a credibility deficit, according to several polls.
The Democrat's campaign sought to respond Friday by releasing a letter of support signed by police officers. “In November, Americans will have to choose between someone who has spent his life enforcing our laws and someone who has been convicted of breaking them,” the message read, referring to the Democrat's former career as a prosecutor and her opponent's criminal conviction in New York.
Donald Trump, who is facing several other charges, including trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, will hold a campaign rally on Saturday in Wisconsin, another highly contested state in this indirect universal suffrage election.
His rival set up camp in Pennsylvania on Thursday to prepare for the debate with his Republican opponent, organized Tuesday by ABC in Philadelphia.
The vice president, who has given only one interview since entering the race, also gave a radio interview on Friday, calling for “turning the page on the Trump era.”
According to media reports, she is expected to make a few public appearances before the televised debate, breaking with Joe Biden’s strategy of disappearing from the radar for several days to prepare for his June showdown with Donald Trump, during which he completely lost his footing.
Kamala Harris will be able to rely on a copious war chest, her campaign team having announced that it had raised $361 million in August, “three times more” than the opposing camp, she assures. The Democrat has a reserve of fresh money of $404 million, less than two months before an election that is causing colossal spending on both sides, particularly on election advertising.
Donald Trump’s campaign team had reported $295 million immediately available.
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