Trump hush money conviction must stand despite election win, prosecutors say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In a court filing made public on Tuesday, prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said Trump should receive "temporary accommodations" to make sure the case does not interfere with his presidency, but called wiping out the jury's verdict an "extreme remedy.
33% : Bragg's office has suggested he defer all proceedings in the case until Trump, 78, is due to leave the White House in 2029.
28% : Trump was charged in three other state and federal criminal cases in 2023, one involving classified documents he kept after leaving office and two others involving his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
21% : A Manhattan jury in May found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up his reimbursement of Cohen.
19% : Merchan last month delayed Trump's previously scheduled Nov. 26 sentencing indefinitely to give him the chance to seek dismissal.
13% : The case stemmed from a $130,000 payment that Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she has said she had a decade earlier with Trump, who denies it.

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