Proliferation of Trump Act Pressed until After Election

The announcement of the bias against former US President Donald Trump, in the criminal case of buying silence, has been postponed until after the end of the November presidential elections.

Judge Juan Merchan said on Friday that he has postponed his sentence until November 26th, among other things, due to the particular “concies in which this issue finds itself”.

Trump's lawyers, the republic's presidential candidate, have used several legal maneuvers to postpone the declaration of decision, which was set before for September 18th.

The Trump was convicted in May by a court in New York on all 34 counts faced by forging company business records, becoming the first American president or former president to be convicted of criminal offence.

In his decision Friday, Judge Merchan wrote that the Trump case requires “that the hearing to pronounce the sentence be fully focused on the jury act”.

Trump may be sentenced to four years in prison, but Judge Merchan has the power to punish him both with fines, parole, or short prison sentences.

He has repeatedly denied any charges and named the trial against him as <x0->Turkish”.

Trump was found guilty of counterfeiting business records to influence illegally in the 2016 presidential election through payments for the silence of an pornography actress who said she had had sex with her.

He was charged with 34 criminal charges, including for falsification of 11 bills, 12 coupons and 11 checks, to hide the $130,000 he had paid Stormy Daniels to buy her silence over her claims of having had sex with Trump in 2006.

Daniels wanted to speak publicly about the alleged sexual connection with Trump a month before the 2016 elections, which would have damaged the Republican nominated's presidential campaign. / REL