President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion to stay the January 10 decision in New York v. Trump, Fox Digital has learned.
“Today, President Trump’s legal team moved to stop the unlawful convictions in the Manhattan District Attorney’s witch hunt. The Supreme Court’s historic immunity decision, the New York State Constitution, and other established legal precedents require that this baseless prosecution be immediately dismissed. A hoax,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, the incoming White House communications director, told Fox Digital on Monday morning.
New York judge sentences Trump days before inauguration
On December 7, 2024, US President-elect Donald Trump met with the French President at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The restored Notre Dame de Paris. (Photo by Sarah Meyssonnier/POOL/AFP) (Photo by SARAH MEYSSONNIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (Sarah Messonnier)
“The American people elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate to demand an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and all remaining witch hunts. As President Trump makes America great again, we look forward to unifying our people in the new administration. country,” Zhang continued.
Earlier this month, New York Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing date in the case before Trump takes office on January 20. 30 was sentenced.
Trump was discovered Convicted of 34 counts of forgery Business records in May Manhattan case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is working to prove that Trump falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. to put to rest her allegations of a 2006 affair with Trump.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 30: Former US President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City to face his hush money trial. Judge Juan Mercand gave instructions to the jury as deliberations entered their second day. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his first criminal case. (Steven Hirsch-Poole/Getty Images)
Trump has maintained his innocence in the case and has repeatedly accused it of being an example of Democrats pushing the law to hurt his election efforts before November.
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“Almost all legal scholars and experts say there are no (zero!) cases against me. The judge made up the facts and the law, no different from other New York judicial and prosecutorial witch hunts. This is why businesses are fleeing New York, Taking away millions of jobs and billions of tax dollars, Trump broke the news about the case on The Truth Society on Sunday night.
