Like any criminal convict, former US President Donald Trump had an interview with the probation services on Monday. This passage is obligatory before the pronouncement of his sentence which can go as far as prison in the case of payments to a former porn star.
In the midst of the campaign to return to the White House and the day after an electoral meeting in the heatwave in Las Vegas, Donald Trump, 77, underwent this exercise in New York where the convicted person is traditionally given a series of questions about his legal past, his professional and family situation and possibly his physical or mental health, a Source close to the case told AFP. The interview lasted half an hour.
“President Trump and his team of lawyers are already taking all necessary measures to challenge and defeat the case of the lawless Manhattan prosecutor,” declared the director of Donald Trump’s campaign , Steven Cheung.
34 falsification offenses
On May 30, twelve jurors unanimously declared Donald Trump guilty of 34 crimes of falsifying accounting documents to hide the payment of $130,000 to pornographic film star Stormy Daniels at the very end of the 2016 presidential campaign. .
This payment, the concealment of which was deemed illegal, was intended to buy her silence on a sexual relationship that she claims to have had with Donald Trump in 2006, when he was already married to his wife Melania.
The interview with the probation services is expected to produce a report for Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial and will set the sentence on July 11.
The offense of falsifying accounting documents can be punished by up to four years in prison in theory, but the judge can choose an alternative such as a suspended sentence with probation, or even community service.
Three days after his conviction, Donald Trump said on the Fox News television channel that a prison sentence ‘would be complicated for the public to accept’ and could be ‘a breaking point’ for his supporters.
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