Faced with the irrecoverable Donald Trump, criminal justice routed – Libération

With the announcement this Tuesday of the inevitable postponement of the pronouncement of his sentence after his criminal conviction in New York in the “Stormy Daniels” affair, the re-elected ex-president sees the grip of a judicial system which he was fearlessly able to thwart.

Entering the spring with a bang and infamy in two and a half centuries of American presidential history as the very first criminal convict, Donald Trump should not see his sentence handed down in the so-called “Stormy Daniels” affair before returning to the Oval Office , on January 20. The lawyers of the newly re-elected ex-president had argued that the will of the voters and his imminent comeback to the top of the executive branch of the United States would justify the abandonment of all proceedings against him.

In a letter expected to the court on Tuesday, November 19, the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, conversely defended the continuation of the procedure, while conceding that the unprecedented situation which had resulted from the November 5 election justified the suspension of the progress of the case – at least until the judge and the courts of appeal have exhausted the information