The judge of process in which Donald Trump was sentenced, the reading of the sentence has been set for January 10th and will define the punishment of the president-elect of the USA. The jury found him guilty, but the judge made it clear that he had no intention of sending the president to prison. Trump was condemned for using campaign funds to buy the adult film actress’s silence Stormy Daniels.
Trump sentencing date set
The New York court has set January 10 as the date on which Judge Juan Merchan will announce the sentence and consequently the sentence imposed on President-elect Donald Trump in Stormy Daniels case.
A jury has already found Trump guilty that he used 2016 campaign funds to pay the adult film actress as part of a confidentiality agreement.
Trump during one of the trial hearings
The sentence was postponed indefinitely on November 22, after Trump’s victory in the elections. A Supreme Court ruling that established partial immunity from criminal justice for former presidents weighs heavily on it.
No prison for the president
Precisely in light of this ruling Judge Juan Merchan he could decide to completely acquit Trump, thus going against what was decided by the popular jury.
Merchan, however, clarified that, even if he decides to confirm the choice of the jurors and therefore to condemn the president-elect 10 days after taking office, the sentence will not be a prison sentence.
Prison therefore avoided for Trumpwhich will see one of its open legal issues resolved. The others, which concern the attempt to subvert the result of the 2020 elections, could lapse after he takes office.
The Stormy Daniels case
Between 2015 and 2016 Donald Trump, then a candidate for the White House for the first time, reached an agreement with the adult film actress Stephanie Gregory Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels.
The woman undertakes not to reveal that she had a sexual relationship with Trump 10 years earlier and the future president agrees to pay her a sum of money. A confidentiality agreement, perfectly legal.
However, Trump uses to pay for this agreement funds raised through the electoral campaignwhich in the USA must be reported very precisely and can only be used for political propaganda purposes. In this passage lies the criminal crime for which Trump was convicted.
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Source: notizie.virgilio.it
