United States: Judge delays ruling against Trump until after the election
The U.S. justice has decided on Friday to delay until after the presidential elections the sentence against republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump.
The former u.s. president was found guilty in late May of falsifying business records to try to hide the payment of 130 thousand dollars to the adult film industry actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence. Judge Juan Merchan of the New York state supreme court, explained that the sentence will be read on November 26 endorsing the application of Trump's legal team, which had requested to postpone the date again, for the second time.
The former u.s. president was found guilty in late May of falsifying business records to try to hide the payment of 130 thousand dollars to the adult film industry actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence. Judge Juan Merchan of the New York state supreme court, explained that the sentence will be read on November 26 endorsing the application of Trump's legal team, which had requested to postpone the date again, for the second time.
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00:00The U.S. justice has decided on Friday to delay until after the presidential election
00:04of the sentence against Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump.
00:08The former U.S. president was found guilty in late May of falsifying business records
00:12to try to hide the payment of $130,000 to the adult film industry actress Stormy Daniels
00:18in exchange for her silence.
00:20Judge Juan Marciano of the New York State Supreme Court explained that the sentence
00:24will be read on November 26, endorsing the application of Trump's legal team, which
00:28has requested to postpone the date again for the second time.
00:32Judge Marciano stressed that the measure has been motivated mainly by the electoral process,
00:36which has been viewed to maintain the objectivity of the U.S. judicial system.