Judge delays immunity ruling on President-elect Donald Trump's hush money conviction

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45% : Trump was in the White House during this period and far removed from the running of his company, Blanche argued.
45% : Trump was in the White House during this period and far removed from the running of his company, Blanche argued.
44% : Under the supremacy clause, states can't prosecute a sitting president, experts said.Manhattan prosecutors argued at trial that Trump, about two months after he announced his first run for president in June 2015, plotted a "criminal conspiracy" to win the election.
37% : That cover up, prosecutors alleged, was to hide the affair from the American electorate as Trump sought the presidency ahead of the 2016 election.
33% : Trump became the first American president convicted of a crime.
29% : Merchan is scheduled to sentence Trump on Nov. 26.
24% : A Manhattan jury convicted Trump in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up $130,000 in hush money to conceal his affair with a former adult film actress.
22% : Under the law, Trump was not required to have made the false entry himself, but to have "made and caused a false entry" with "the intent to defraud to commit another crime," according to legal instructions the judge gave to the jury before deliberations began.
12% : In another first, Trump became the first American president to be held in contempt of court when Merchan ruled that Trump had violated a gag order prohibiting him from publicly criticizing the jury or court staff.
12% : Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000; former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who also alleged to have had an affair with Trump, was paid $150,000; Dino Sajudin, a door attendant at Trump Tower who had shopped a false story that Trump fathered a child outside his marriage, was paid $30,000.
6% : Along with his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen hand tabloid publisher David Pecker, Trump executed a series of "catch and kill" plans, by paying off people alleging to have negative stories about Trump.

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