Manhattan District Attorney Agrees to Postpone Sentencing for Trump

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Trump has filed a motion to dismiss based on presidential immunity.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Braggโ€™s office has agreed to postpone sentencing for President-elect Donald Trump in his business records case.

A Nov. 19 letter to New York Justice Juan Merchan showed Bragg stating that his office believed โ€œfurther proceedings before this Court should be adjourned to permit litigationโ€ surrounding Trumpโ€™s motion to dismiss.

Sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 26 but the court said on Nov. 10 that it will grant a stay of the ongoing deadlines until Nov. 19. Both sides had requested a temporary stay.

โ€œThis is a total and definitive victory for President Trump and the American People who elected him in a landslide,โ€ Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Epoch Times via email. โ€œThe Manhattan DA has conceded that this Witch Hunt cannot continue.โ€

Cheung said Trumpโ€™s legal team is working to get the case dismissed.

Trump has asked the court to throw out the verdict and indictment based on presidential immunity. A decision on that request was initially expected earlier this month.

The letter from Braggโ€™s office did not acquiesce to Trumpโ€™s arguments to dismiss the case over the immunity issue, nor his request to move the case to federal court.

โ€œWe believe these arguments are incorrect,โ€ the letter said. โ€œThe People deeply respect the Office of the President, are mindful of the demands and obligations of the presidency, and acknowledge that Defendantโ€™s inauguration will raise unprecedented legal questions.โ€

In May, a jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts, raising the prospect that he could face prison time. Expertsย told The Epoch Times at the time that the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution would preclude Trump from serving prison time.

Trumpโ€™s attorneys argued that the U.S. Supreme Courtโ€™s decision in Trump v. United States, which granted different levels of criminal immunity for presidentsโ€™ official conduct, barred the use of certain evidence and witness testimony.

In his July response to the request to dismiss the indictment, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg argued that Trump had waited too long to raise some of his arguments about immunity. He also said a federal judge had deemed the conduct in questionโ€”an alleged payment to Stephanie Cliffordโ€”outside of a presidentโ€™s official duties.

On Nov. 19, Braggโ€™s office argued that โ€œno current law establishes that a presidentโ€™s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding.โ€

Byย Sam Dorman

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