The legal horizon is now clear for Donald Trump before the November 5 presidential election. The announcement of his sentence in the Stormy Daniels case is postponed beyond the day of the vote and potentially the result.
With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
November 26. This is the day that Judge Merchan will normally pronounce the sentence he intends to impose onDonald Trump for falsifying his companies’ accounts 34 times to hide payments to a former porn star to buy her silence about a relationship the former president continues to deny.
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He faces four years in prison, although that’s pretty unlikely for a first criminal conviction. In other words, Americans will vote without knowing whether Donald Trump will go to prison.
If he wins on November 5, he could also receive the sentence in the shoes of an elected president, which would obviously be unprecedented. This is the second time that the judge has postponed his decision, so as not to interfere in the election campaignIt was originally supposed to be July 11, then September 18.
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