already found guilty, Donald Trump will receive his sentence on January 10

The American president-elect, Donald Trump, convicted in the spring by a New York criminal court of concealed payments to a porn star, will receive his sentence on January 10, which will not be imprisonment, announced the judge who presided over this historic trial, Friday January 3.

Donald Trump doit “appear for his sentence, following his conviction, on January 10, 2025”ordered Judge Juan Merchan in an order on Friday, while specifying that he was not “inclined to impose a sentence of incarceration” to the man who on January 20 will become the 47^e President of the United States, barely ten days later.

“This illegitimate political attack is nothing but a charade”reacted, on his Truth Social network, Donald Trump.

The US president-elect will be able to appear in person at the court in lower Manhattan, or remotely by video, but he will have to make his ” preference “ by Sunday, according to the magistrate. The judge wrote in his eighteen-page order that he “seemed appropriate to indicate that the court would not be inclined to impose a sentence of incarceration”even if such a sentence – with a possible committal warrant – was made legally possible by the criminal conviction.

First former president convicted by criminal justice

The 30th of 2024, Donald Trump, 45^e American president, was the first former tenant of the White House to be criminally convicted in the history of the country. The jury of the Manhattan court, dependent on the local justice of the State of New York, had found him guilty of 34 counts of hidden payments to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, made just before the presidential election of 2016, which he won against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

According to the courts, it was a question of this woman, real name Stephanie Clifford, having a brief sexual encounter in 2006 while Donald Trump was married to Melania. The person concerned denies any sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels.

After months of appeals and the election won on November 5, the Trump camp failed to overturn this historic verdict on the basis of presidential immunity which was extended on November 1.^is July by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Judge Merchan's announcement “is a direct attack on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding immunity” presidential election, said Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Donald Trump, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse, referring to this decision by the American high court.

Under enormous political pressure, Judge Merchan had postponed the sentencing several times, especially since the Republican candidate's presidential victory.

The lawyers of the next president – ​​who should be his future numbers two, three and four at the Department of Justice – presented this fall yet another appeal against the Manhattan verdict, invoking the presidential status of their client. Judge Merchan then asked the prosecution and the defense to find « arrangements » and not “to weigh” on the second Trump presidency.

The Manhattan prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, who investigated the entire case, had therefore proposed not to sentence the billionaire to a “penalty of incarceration” or that “the procedure is suspended during the mandate” of four years, i.e. until January 20, 2029.

Also convicted of civil charges in other cases

Since his resounding re-election, the Republican has seen his criminal justice horizon almost completely clear. Federal justice has abandoned two criminal proceedings for illegal attempts to reverse the results of the November 2020 presidential election, lost to Joe Biden, and for withholding classified documents after his chaotic departure from the White House on January 20, 2021.

On the other hand, in civil matters, again despite the argument of presidential immunity, Donald Trump remains liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in at least three cases judged in New York.

The Stormy Daniels case is therefore the only criminal case to reach its conclusion, an unprecedented scenario in American history.