Trump sentencing in Stormy Daniels hush money case indefinitely delayed by NYC Judge Juan Merchan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : In separate filings to the judge this week, prosecutors said they planned to fight Trump’s renewed efforts to get the guilty verdicts against him thrown out but conceded Merchan may need to consider pushing back sentencing until Trump is out of office in 2029.“The People deeply respect the office of the president, are mindful of the demands and obligations of the presidency, and acknowledge that defendant’s inauguration will raise unprecedented legal questions,” prosecutors wrote.
37% : The Fulton County, Ga. case, in which Trump was accused alongside 18 others of trying to undermine the results of the 2020 election in that state — including by asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes he needed to claim victory — has been bogged down by appeals.
34% : Trump has argued it should have barred prosecutors from showing evidence concerning his time in office.
28% : “Just as a sitting president is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as president-elect,” Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who Trump has tapped for top positions in the Department of Justice, wrote.
27% : The criminal case was the only one of four brought against Trump after his first term that made it before a jury.
13% : Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Daniels bought her silence about an alleged sordid sexual encounter with Trump at a 2006 golf tournament when she was 27 and he was 60.Jurors found the payment to Daniels was part of a scheme carried out before the election that sought to hide unflattering information about his past from voters that also included hush money payoffs to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who alleges she had a nearly yearlong affair with Trump, and a doorman at Trump Tower who claimed Trump had fathered a child with a housekeeper out of wedlock.

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