Trump seeks delay in hush money trial sentencing until after November election

Donald Trump is seeking to have the sentencing in his hush money trial delayed until after the election in November.

The former president’s attorneys argue in a letter that the current sentencing being scheduled for September 18 progresses prosecutors’ “naked election-interference objectives,” according to ABC News.

The sentencing was originally set for July 11 but Judge Juan Merchan initially delayed it after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Merchan said he would issue a ruling on the immunity claim two days before the September sentencing.

“That timing illustrates just how unreasonable it is to have the potential for only a single day between a decision on first-impression Presidential immunity issues and an unprecedented and unwarranted sentencing,” Trump’s legal team wrote in a letter sent to Merchan on Thursday.

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