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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Judge delays Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case until after the election
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
53 Comments
Bob Fosse
Slow and steady wins the race. Might even calm some of the conspiracy whiners claiming election interference.
Delayed does not mean acquitted, just means 45 has to sweat a little longer.
TaiwanIsNotChina
There was no reason to delay: the election is still months away and if you can't do the time, you shouldn't do the crime.
bass4funk
ROFL! I knew it. Anyway, now that this nuttiness is behind us, we can focus on the winning the election.
Underworld
This shouldn't have been delayed, but I guess there has been a lot off pressure on Judge Merchan.
The good news is that Judge Chutkan sees no reason to have the prosecutor and defense attorneys to present evidence in the Washington election interference case.
This evidence, some of which the public has never seen, will come out in the weeks before the election.
Underworld
bass4funk
Well no, it's not all behind Trump, evidence from the Washington election interference case will be coming out over the next few weeks.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Also there is nothing stopping Trump from running from prison. That's the secret service's problem to figure out.
bass4funk
Yes, it is behind Trump this ELECTION year
Underworld
bass4funk
Well no, it's not all behind Trump,
He just goes to jail next year...
But my point being that Trump's legal woes will be in the news right up to the election.
bass4funk
Not if he wins
Norm
I don’t deal in hypotheticals, so I won’t use “if.”
He absolutely won’t win. The number of goobers in the gold-sneaker brigade is falling by the day.
When he becomes semiconscious on Wednesday, November 6th, he’ll be looking at a whole new panoramic view of his future lost.
itsonlyrocknroll
Comprehension of/to the importance of a fair and impartial US Judiciary cannot be understated, if the dangers of political interference to US 2024 democratic process are so flagrant.
Thus exposed to corrupt politically motivated bias, at the whims of Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan.
Blatantly partisan, shameless intimidation of a republican nominees for a democrat partisan agenda.
I suggest seeking a route to future preferment.
bass4funk
Hmmm…
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1831795331681431562?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
dagon
The delay is probably all for the best in the short term to avoid any more chaos close to the election.
Trump should give thanks to the two-tier justice system next time as it has shown him extraordinary leniency.
Bob Fosse
Hmmm…
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
Bob Fosse
Put every penny you own on 45. You know the bookies prefer it when people lose right?
konjo4u
Another fine isn't going to have any effect on how people vote at this point. But the contempt of court might mean spending time in jail.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
There isn't any political interference in the US 2024 democratic process
No evidence.
Doing there jobs in a professional manner. No whims involved.
No evidence.
?
bass4funk
Wow! First time that libs figured out something that absolutely makes sense, better late than never.
No, Trump should thank that the Constitution and the law were upheld
Underworld
bass4funk
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
Didn't you call Nate Silver a liberal who you don't trust?
ArtistAtLarge
Indeed. Two tiered and bsurd amounts of leniency.
Underworld
bass4funk
I agree. He was convicted.
Bob Fosse
Explain clearly how the constitution was upheld in connection to this.
Bear in mind that yesterday you wanted the constitution to be amended.
bass4funk
I said that Silver being the liberal he is, making these predictions, there is nothing in it for him showing Trump’s lead, nothing. Not Fox News or a conservative sycophant, a hardcore liberal.
Ok and?
Meanwhile in deep blue California…
https://x.com/simply4truth_/status/1829597342733123900?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
bass4funk
https://x.com/mrddmia/status/1829604123878048040?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ
For the shooter in the Georgia case, yes.
dagon
And that endorsement shows how warped the US two-tiered injustice system is and how Trump is one of the foremost beneficiaries of this corrupt system that allows him to run his frauds and scams and commit felonies with impunity.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fraternal-order-police-endorses-trump-president-blast-harris-defunder-crime-wave
itsonlyrocknroll
Preferment?
For Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan steadfast unflinching unquestioned blindly credulous pursuit of a political agenda has to be rewarded.
It is quiet right to question Judge Juan M. Merchan, District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan self interest, motivation.
wallace
Trump is a felon going into the election—first time for that.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
Because there is no political agenda.
Only if you have evidence of such.
Moonraker
I guess Trump is part of the establishment. It looks after its own.
Ah_so
I agree. Without his contempt, disrespect of the judge and the court itself, he would not have been looking at jail. However, for this, he must be looking at jail time.
However, if sentenced after the election if he is elected President, means that it is almost impossible for him to serve time immediately. In that case, the sentence would need to commence in January 2029 and he would go straight from the White House to jail. I'm not sure if such extended delays between conviction and commencement of sentence are possible, however. But it would send Trump crazy, which would be entertaining.
wallace
The election won't protect him when he loses it.
Ah_so
Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal is far from a blessing. The court of appeals will almost certainly reverse this decision and very likely remove Cannon from the case for her lack of impartiality and her repeated incompetent decisions.
Had she not been so stupid as to dismiss the case on spurious grounds, she could have let the case fester in pre-trial for years. But if an impartial judge is assigned to the case, Trump could go on trial in months (although obviously not if elected, as he will direct the AG to dismiss the case).
rcch
Sorry to disappoint my fellow JT readers but the latest polls (and I apologize for an inaccurate comment I posted here on JT yesterday) suggest this is an extremely close race, which means Kamala is in a very bad position;
(she can’t escape the debate, the press and Trump)—she has everything to lose in the coming months as Trump’s numbers are stagnant and not going anywhere and he still has the support of the silent majority who will vote for him;
so yes, this is good news—this politically motivated nonsense will not achieve its goals after Trump’s re–election.
bass4funk
What in the world are you talking about??
Yes and?
No, the Supreme Court gave a spanking to Dems and their attempts to throw a monkey wrench into the system and got caught
Norm
Can anyone explain how the constitution figures into this situation? The person above obviously can’t.
bass4funk
Well, it does when it comes to Presidential immunity. Look, I get it, it’s not a good day for the left and this sham faux witch hunt is falling apart at the seams, but I give the left for kudos for trying, quite inventive actually.
Bob Fosse
Do you believe the constitution mentions presidential immunity or criminal immunity for anybody?
itsonlyrocknroll
JT please some latitude, I would like elaborate, This thread content has a relevance to the historic importance November US election 2024 .
Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan "action" juridical process, have a direct purpose,
Kamala Harris campaign has or is close to reaching a political roadblock, to stagger stumble, a policy wasteland, seriously lacking a clear programme or timetable.
Literally turn up cackle, follow the teleprompter, wave, point, and move on.
Trump/Vance are soaking the media with some thirty or more press conference/interviews. Challenged daily.
Harris a single partisan political love fest.
Harris/Walz are in a state of preputial hermetically sealed lockdown to even the faintest media scrutiny.
To hobble the Trump campaign within the "straitjacket" of a US judicial clandestine scheme perpetrated by a pair of willing politically partisan Judge Juan M. Merchan, District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan is a opportunity worth the risks involved.
Data
Nonsense.
Talk about "lack of seriousness".
Indeed - and one has increasing mental glitches and breakdowns with each speech and the other puts his foot in his mouth then gets booed off the stage.
Trump is a convicted felon leading a radical cult.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
Incorrect.
Incorrect.
That's how they choose to campaign.
And talk about "word salad". Trump looked like a student who hadn't read the book do a book report, when asked about child care (Google it).
Vance just said get your Grandparents to look after your kids.
It's not helping them.
Good.
How they run their campaign is up to them. But they do have policies, and they are expounding them.
There is no clandestine scheme perpetrated Judge Merchan or Judge Chutkan. Why do you keep saying there is?
itsonlyrocknroll
Data, I think I have prevented a fair and balanced humble opinion.
No embellishment's or unnecessary insults to Harris/Walz.
Your points that Trump is a convicted felon, conveniently at the pleasure of democrat Judge Juan M. Merchan.
Harris bubble is dissipating, hide and seek in not a strategy to win elections.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
itsonlyrocknroll
Presented sorry
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
You haven't. You have presented no evidence for your opinion and hence, it is unbalanced.
Nope, it was a jury that convicted Trump.
Harris and Walz are campaigning daily. Trump is not.
Data
I don't.
Just falsehoods and fabrications.
More far-right nonsense.
Having a mental breakdown while explaining something as simple as child care isn't either.
"Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, and I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that, because, look, child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have it. In this country you have to have it."
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/trump-child-care-costs-plan-incomprehensible
Even Fox News calls it "incomprehensible".
Unless you're in MAGA-world, then you can "fool" some people all the time - take all their money too.
Bob Fosse
No. A jury decided this.
DaDude
Incorrect. He is a professional judge.
Incorrect
Incorrect. You have no evidence that there is evidence sitting across the pond.
Underworld
DaDude
The good news is that Judge Chutkan sees no reason to have the prosecutor and defense attorneys to present evidence in the Washington election interference case.
True! I meant to say:
The good news is that Judge Chutkan sees no reason not to have the prosecutor and defense attorneys present evidence in the Washington election interference case.
itsonlyrocknroll
From conception, start to finish, democrat Judge Juan M. Merchan shamefully orchestrated a kangaroo illiberal fascist court process.
It sole function, a tainted jury, reminiscent to a French Revolutionary Tribunal, was to criminalize a republican opponent, to interfere with the 2024 US election.
Bob Fosse
Tainted how?
Evidence please, not conspiracy babble.
itsonlyrocknroll
No juror, jury section in New York/Manhattan would ever be found, an impartial 12 jurors to without fear or favour decide the fate of Donald Trump.
New Yorkers to Trump: “New York Hates You”
https://democrats.org/news/new-yorkers-to-trump-new-york-hates-you/
Trump was "done up like a kipper"
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., Prosecutors Susan Hoffinger and Joshua Steinglass, Judge Juan M. Merchan, and finally the 12 Jurors.
Trump was guilty, before he stepped into that shameful Kangaroo Court.
bass4funk
The very definition of election interference
itsonlyrocknroll
bass4funk
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., Prosecutors Susan Hoffinger and Joshua Steinglass, Judge Juan M. Merchan, and finally the 12 Jurors.
Harris/Biden clapping enthusiastically.
Deceitfully callously tarnished besmirched a once respected US justice system in an attempt to strip a US presidential candidate, the republican nominee, of his right to stand for office.
bass4funk
It's NYC, I wouldn't expect anything different.