President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion to stay the Jan. 10 sentencing in the New York v. Trump case, Fox Digital has learned.
“Today, President Trump’s legal team took steps to stop the unlawful conviction in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Witch Hunt. The Supreme Court’s historic decision on immunity, the New York State Constitution, and other established legal precedents mandate that this worthless hoax be immediately dismissed.” Trump spokesman and incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox Digital on Monday morning.
NEW YORK JUDGE SET TRUMP SENTENCING DAYS BEFORE INAUGURATION
Newly elected US President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with the French president at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 7, 2024. Trump is making his first international trip since his election victory and preparing for a day of intense diplomacy before the reopening ceremony attends in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral, restored after the 2019 fire. (Photo by Sarah Meyssonnier / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SARAH MEYSSONNIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (Sarah Meyssonnier)
“The American people elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate that demands an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and all remaining witch hunts. We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again,” Cheung continued.
New York Judge Juan Merchan set Trump’s sentencing date in the case earlier this month, ahead of his inauguration as president on January 20. Trump will be sentenced on Friday, January 10 at 9:30 am.
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of forgery business records in the Manhattan case in May. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office sought to prove that Trump falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to substantiate her claims of an alleged affair with Trump 2006 to suppress.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 30: Former US President Donald Trump appears in court for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. Judge Juan Merchan instructed the jury and deliberations enter their second day. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying company records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)
Trump has maintained his innocence in the case and has repeatedly spoken out against it as an example of litigation promoted by Democrats in an effort to damage his election efforts ahead of November.
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“Virtually every legal scholar and expert says there is no (zero!) case against me. The judge has fabricated the facts and the law, no different than the other judicial and prosecutorial witch hunts in New York. That is why companies in New York fleeing, taking with them millions of jobs and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TAXES ruined, and corporations can’t risk getting caught in this quicksand IT’S ALL WRONG, in this case against a political opponent, I!!!” Trump reported on the case in Truth Social on Sunday evening.
