The sentencing is scheduled for Friday, January 10, just ten days before Trump returns to the White House.
In his ruling, Judge Merchan wrote, “This Court has considered Defendant’s arguments in support of his motion and finds that they are, for the most part, a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past, including in his Criminal Procedure Law (‘CPL’) S 330.30(1) motion to vacate his conviction and dismiss the indictment; and his ‘Clayton Modon’ to dismiss in the interests of justice, both of which this Court denied by Decision and Order dated December 16, 2024 and January 3, 2025, respectively.”
“Further, this Court Frnds that the authorities relied upon in the instant motion by the Defendant are, for the most part, factually distinguishable from the actual record or legally inapplicable,” the ruling continued.
Trump can now attempt to have an appeals court overrule Judge Merchan’s decision.
Last week, Trump said that if the judge’s decision is allowed to stand, “it would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.”
“This illegitimate political attack is nothing but a Rigged Charade. ‘Acting’ Justice Merchan, who is a radical partisan, just issued another order that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.”
Trump concluded, “Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family’s disqualifying and illegal conflicts. I am the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself – A despicable First Amendment Violation!”
Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records after paying $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter that the two had in 2006.
The president-elect has vehemently denied Daniels’ claims.
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement about the sentencing, “President Trump must be allowed to continue the Presidential Transition process and to execute the vital duties of the presidency, unobstructed by the remains of this or any remnants of the Witch Hunts.”
Trump is the first former president in US history ever to be arrested and charged after leaving office.
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