Trump Reacts To Sentencing Delay

Former President Donald Trump stated on Friday that the sentencing in his hush-money case has been rescheduled to after the election because he “did nothing wrong.”

Judge Juan Merchan postponed the sentencing in the Manhattan case for the second time, moving it from September 18 to November 26, which is three weeks after the presidential election. In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that the delay was due to the fact that “there was NO CASE, I DID NOTHING WRONG!”

“It is a political attack against me by Comrade Kamala Harris and other Radical Left Opponents for purposes of Election Interference, and is a case that should have never been brought,” he wrote. “Nothing like this has ever happened in the United States of America – IT IS STRICTLY THIRD WORLD, BANANA REPUBLIC ‘STUFF.’”

In late May, Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. These charges were related to allegations that he attempted to conceal hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels from the 2016 election campaign.

The judge argued that he was delaying the sentencing “to avoid any appearance — however unwarranted — that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching presidential election in which the Defendant is a candidate.”

Judge Merchan’s case should have NEVER been brought in the first place — and his unconstitutional gag order on President Trump should be removed! pic.twitter.com/sdc11Ecla7

— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) September 6, 2024

Trump and his supporters have argued that the hush-money case brought against him by Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg is an attempt to prevent the Republican nominee from securing another term in the White House.

🚨🚨🚨 Today I filed a new judicial ethics complaint with the New York State Commission because new evidence on Kamala Harris’ most recent FEC filing shows she hired and paid Acting Justice Juan Merchan’s adult daughter’s company. This is a clear violation of the New York State… pic.twitter.com/Il7PwjSXIR

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) September 6, 2024

Merchan shot back at those allegations with his order on Friday.

“The Court is a fair, impartial, and apolitical institution,” adding that his decision “should dispel any suggestion that the Court will have issued any decision or imposed sentence either to give an advantage to, or to create a disadvantage for, any political party and or any candidate for any office,” Merchan wrote in his order.

Legal experts have suggested that the Supreme Court might eventually become involved in the case.