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Donald Trump tries to push hush-money trial sentencing until after the election... as he's warned he could be JAILED as soon as 'next month'
Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to put off his sentencing in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial until after the election, after getting an earlier reprieve following a Supreme Court ruling.
Now, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argues in a letter to Judge Juan Merchan for a delay, citing the risk of 'election interference'.
He wants sentencing 'adjourned until after the Presidential election,' Blanche writes in a new letter to the judge where he invokes new developments in the 2024 election.
Blanche's letter also brings up the failed effort to get Merchan to recuse from the case due to his daughter's work for a firm that does digital ad campaigns for Democrats.
He he faults Kamala Harris' new running mate Gov. Tim Walz for having 'wrongly referred to this case in a public speech as the Democrat Party's nominee for Vice President.' Harris, a former DA and California AG, has made going after 'predators' and other suspects a key part of her stump speech since stepping in for President Joe Biden.
Trump wants to prevent the District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office from filing a sentencing submission while the court is considering Trump's motion on presidential immunity, following the Supreme Court's ruling on the complex matter.
Merchan is scheduled to rule Sept. 16 on the immunity issue, and Trump's team wants him to put off sentencing until any appeal is allowed to go through. He has previously said the Sept. 18th sentencing date 'remains unchanged.'
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump said it would amount to 'election interference' to go ahead with scheduled Sept. 18th sentencing in his Stormy Daniels hush money case
Former George W. Bush Justice Department official John Yoo told Fox News Merchan could in fact send Trump to jail in the midst of the campaign, following his conviction by a Manhattan jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
'Judge Merchan has ruled against Donald Trump every opportunity he’s had,' said Yoo. 'He could have exercised his discretion here to change the sentencing date. But instead, he actually moved it closer to the beginning of absentee voting in my home state of Pennsylvania' – a key battleground where Harris has opened up a narrow polling lead in the latest surveys.
'This really, could you imagine what would happen if Judge Merchan sentenced Donald Trump to jail time, even though he’s a first time nonviolent offender?' said Yoo. 'What if Judge Merchan even went crazier and said, Donald Trump doesn’t even get to stay out of jail while his case is on appeal? He has the power to actually order Donald Trump sent to jail immediately, although I expect he wouldn’t.'
New York Judge Juan Merchan already delayed sentencing following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity
Many legal experts predicted before and after Trump's conviction that the non-violent first-time offender most likely would not get jail time.
But Merchan has repeatedly fined Trump after finding he violated a gag order in the case.
After numerous efforts to themselves delay the case and winning a Supreme Court ruling that blew up the Trump trial schedules, Trump's team says it would be improper to go ahead with sentencing with voting underway.
'Finally, setting aside naked election-interference objectives,” they wrote, “there is no valid countervailing reason for the Court to keep the current sentencing date on the calendar. There is no basis for continuing to rush,' Blanche wrote.