'He's making this up': Legal experts dismiss Trump's effort to dodge sentencing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : But Rubin said Trump is arguing that, as president-elect, he enjoys the same immunity and pause as presidents.
44% : Speaking to MSNBC, legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that because the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity decision was made over the summer, Trump believes he is entitled to a decision on his immunity in the New York conviction before sentencing.
37% : Legal analysts dismissed a filing by Donald Trump Monday demanding that his Friday, Jan. 10 sentencing be stayed because his presidency has yet to begin.
27% : "Second, Trump also argues he has 'sitting-President immunity' -- but he's not yet the sitting president," wrote Eisen.
23% : "Trump did the wrongdoing either before he was president or by falsifying personal business records.
15% : It's time to decimate the Republicans' standing with the public -- and the press None of the charges that Trump was convicted of -- which involved paying a woman to keep quiet about a sexual encounter so that voters in 2016 didn't find out about it -- happened while Trump was president.

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