New Delhi: America’s newly elected President Donald Trump is going to take oath on January 20. After winning the elections last year, he will enter the White House in January. But just before this, a big crisis has come upon him.
His Republican Party is in shock due to this crisis. There is only one question in everyone’s mind that what will happen next. In fact, a judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on January 10 in his hush money case in New York. This order has come less than two weeks before taking oath as President.
According to the BBC report, New York Judge Juan Marchan indicated that he would not sentence Trump to jail or impose a fine. Instead, he would give him “conditional release”. He also wrote in his order that the President-elect can appear for the hearing either in person or virtually.
What is the stance of Trump’s team?
It is known that Trump had attempted to use his victory in the presidential election to get the case against him dismissed. His team criticized the judge’s decision to proceed with the sentence and said that this “lawless” case should be dismissed “immediately”.
Trump was convicted in May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who paid the adult-film star to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump during the final days of the 2016 campaign.
What does Trump say about the charges?
Although Trump has denied all wrongdoing during his time as president-elect and has pleaded innocent, he argues that the case was an attempt to harm his 2024 presidential campaign. On Friday, a Trump spokesman criticized Judge Marchen’s sentencing order, saying it was part of a “witch hunt.”
Trump has been told of several remedies
In his latest motion against the case, Trump had argued that the case would hang over him during his presidency and impede his ability to govern. Justice Marchen said he had been advised of several remedies he could adopt that could ease Trump’s concerns about being distracted by a criminal case while serving as president. His options included postponing the sentence until the 78-year-old Trump leaves the White House in 2029 or guaranteeing a sentence that does not include prison time. Trump had initially, and unsuccessfully, argued that the case against him ran against the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
