President-elect Donald Trump is expected to be sentenced in New York on January 10, an unprecedented development in the history of the United States over the past 248 years.
Judge Juan Merchan in New York (USA) has just announced the decision to sentence President-elect Donald Trump on January 10 in the criminal case in which he was convicted of paying hush money to a former adult film actress. According to The New York Times , the decision means that Mr. Trump will be sentenced just 10 days before taking office, something that has never happened in US history.
Before inauguration day, President-elect Trump must hear the verdict
Judge's signal
A New York jury in May 2023 found Mr. Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying records to conceal hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Prosecutors accused Mr. Trump of participating in an illegal conspiracy to sabotage the election by using money to force Ms. Daniels not to disclose a previous sexual relationship with him. Mr. Trump denied all charges.
Mr. Trump answers the media at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on December 31, 2024.
In announcing his sentencing on January 10, Judge Merchan said he was leaning toward granting Trump an unconditional pardon, a rare alternative to a prison sentence or probation. Merchan said it seemed “the most viable solution to ensure finality and allow the defendant to pursue his appeal options.” But it would make Trump the first US president to have a criminal conviction vacated before taking office, despite his efforts to have the indictment and conviction overturned.
Mr. Merchan argued that dismissing the indictment and setting aside the jury's verdict would not address concerns raised by the Supreme Court in a number of cases involving presidential immunity, nor would it serve the rule of law.
Mr. Trump is upset
In an interview with Fox News on January 3, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. Merchan for refusing to vacate the conviction, saying that the Democrats "just want to see if they can get any meat, because every case has failed." The president-elect said that every major legal scholar has strongly stated that there is no case, but only a witch hunt. He asserted that he did nothing wrong, while Mr. Merchan is "a completely conflicted judge and is working for the Democrats."
Meanwhile, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, who will become White House communications director in just over two weeks, said Merchan's decision "is a direct violation of the Supreme Court's immunity decision and other long-standing legal principles." Cheung said the "illegal case" should be immediately dismissed. "There should be no conviction, and President-elect Trump will continue to fight until all of these hoaxes are eradicated," he said.
About to return to the White House, Mr. Trump also complained about the US flag being flown at half-mast to coincide with his inauguration on January 20. Previously, US President Joe Biden announced that January 9 would be a national day of mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter and the entire country would fly flags at half-mast for 30 days.
House Speaker Mike Johnson re-elected
US House Speaker Mike Johnson was re-elected after a vote on January 3 (local time), with the important support of President-elect Donald Trump and ending the risk of the 2025 US House session opening in chaos. According to AFP, Mr. Johnson (Republican Party) won 218 votes, the minimum number needed, while all 215 Democratic congressmen supported their party's candidate, Mr. Hakeem Jeffries. Some Republican congressmen did not want to vote for Mr. Johnson because they thought he was too soft on the Democrats when negotiating a spending bill last month. At the last minute, there were still a few Republican congressmen who did not want to vote for Mr. Johnson, so Mr. Trump called two of them, according to the Punchbowl News website. Speaking after his re-election, Mr. Johnson announced that he would extend the tax cuts made by Mr. Trump in 2017 and which were due to expire this year. He also pledged to tackle inflation, cut the size of government and "return power to the people."
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