American justice indefinitely postpones Donald Trump's sentencing

The president-elect was found guilty in May of accounting falsifications to hide the payment of $130,000 to an porn star in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

Postponed indefinitely. The judge at Donald Trump's trial in New York for hidden payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels decided, Friday, November 22, to indefinitely suspend the sentencing, scheduled for November 26. Judge Juan Merchan authorizes the lawyers of the American president-elect to present an appeal by December 2 to obtain the annulment of the procedure.

This case is the only one in which a criminal trial took place against the Republican, winner of the presidential election at the beginning of November, out of the four in which he was charged. After six weeks of debate, at the end of May, a jury of 12 citizens unanimously found Donald Trump guilty of 34 accounting falsification offenses to hide from voters the payment of $130,000 to the X-rated movie star. The goal was to prevent a sex scandal from breaking out at the very end of his first victorious campaign in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.

The sentence, which could range from a fine to prison, should first have been pronounced on July 11 by Judge Juan Merchan. But the magistrate had agreed to postpone it for the first time to September 18, then to November 26, in order to study new appeals from the defense lawyers.