Convicted felon and sexual abuser the Malignant Loser is attempting another legal fast one regarding his conviction in a Manhattan court on 34 felony counts related to hush money payoffs to keep his affair with Stormy Daniels hidden. He's asking a Federal court in New York City to take the case from the State and to delay sentencing, now scheduled for September 18. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, whom the Malignant Loser has repeatedly smeared, is expected to rule on a separate motion to delay sentencing until after the November 5 election. From CNN:
"The petition filed Thursday asks the federal court to confirm the former president cannot be sentenced while the litigation over the removal to federal court is pending.
'These ongoing harms must be stopped. The impending election cannot be redone. The currently unaddressed harm to the Presidency resulting from this improper prosecution will adversely impact the operations of the federal government for generations,' the filing states. [snip]
Trump’s lawyers cite the 'extraordinary significance' of the recent US Supreme Court decision that determined Trump has broad sweeping immunity for any 'official acts.'
Since the high court ruling, Trump’s lawyers have asked Merchan to vacate the state conviction arguing that evidence of a president’s official acts should not be used in a trial.
They’ve specifically highlighted testimony from former White House aide Hope Hicks and tweets from Trump’s Twitter account shown to the jury during the seven-week hush money trial.
Merchan has said he’d rule on that motion the week of September 16 – around the same time he’s currently set to sentence Trump." (our emphasis)
The Malignant Loser's continuous claim that his candidacy should prohibit prosecutors going after him neglects to note that he didn't announce his candidacy for President until November 2022, well after this and other criminal prosecutions of him were already well underway. In addition, he was given a big gift from his Republican partisan-dominated Supreme Court in their foot-dragging and in their Presidential "official acts" immunity ruling earlier this summer, which he's stretched and twisted to the Nth degree.
Thanks to his zealous cult, the Malignant Loser has the resources to drag this and his other three criminal cases out for months, if not years. The fact that he's running to stay out of prison is made all the more obvious by his constant legal maneuverings.
(photos: Judge Merchan and the felon. Getty Images)
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