Trump files motion to delay sentencing in New York case

President-elect Trump filed a motion to delay sentencing on Jan. 10 in New York against the Trump case, Fox Digital has learned.

“Today, President Trump’s legal team moved to stop the illegal sentencing in the Manhattan DA witch hunt. The Supreme Court’s historic ruling on immunity, the New York State Constitution, and other established legal precedent mandate that this worthless hoax be rejected immediately.” Trump spokesman and incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung told Fox Digital on Monday morning.

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President-elect Trump during a meeting with the President of France at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

“The American people elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate that demands an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and all remaining witch hunts. We look forward to uniting our country in the new administration as President Trump makes America great again .” Cheung continued.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office responded to the filing Monday afternoon, denying the request to delay sentencing.

“The court should deny the defendant’s request for an immediate stay and should proceed to sentencing as scheduled on January 10, 2025,” the DA’s office wrote in its response Monday.

New York Judge Juan Merchan set Trump’s sentencing date in the case earlier this month ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration. The former and incoming president had requested that the judgment in the case be vacated based on the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity last year. year, which was denied by Merchan.

Trump will be sentenced on Friday, January 10 at 9.30. Merchan has already said he will not sentence the president-elect to prison, instead issuing a sentence of an “unconditional discharge,” meaning no sentence would be imposed.

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Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of forgery business records in the Manhattan case in May. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office worked to prove that Trump falsified business records to hide a $130,000 payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to squelch her claims about an alleged affair with Trump in 2006.

Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump has maintained his innocence in the case and has repeatedly spoken out against it as an example of legislation promoted by Democrats in an attempt to damage his reelection efforts ahead of November.

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“Almost always legal scholar and expert says THERE IS NO (ZERO!) CASE AGAINST ME. The judge made up the facts and the law, no different than the other New York judicial and prosecutorial witch hunts. This is why companies are fleeing New York, taking with it millions of jobs and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TAXES The legal system is broken and businesses can’t take a chance on getting caught in this quicksand IT’S FIXED, in this case against a political opponent, ME!!!” Trump wrote to Truth Social on Sunday night about the matter.

Judge Juan Merchan imposed on a courtroom in photo illustration. (AP)

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Trump’s sentencing in the case has been repeatedly delayed. Trump’s lawyers had asked Merchan to overturn the former president’s guilty verdict after the Supreme Court ruled in July that former presidents have substantive immunity from prosecution for official acts in office, but not for unofficial acts.