Trump asked the court to postpone the payment of the right to remain silent
Donald Trump requested that the court delay the hearing on the charge of hush money payment to an actor of immoral films until his claim of immunity is investigated. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, Donald Trump requested the delay of the trial hearing on the accusation of paying the silence fee to an actor of immoral films until the Supreme Court of the country examines his claim of immunity.
In this petition, Trump asked the New York judge who is in charge of dealing with this Trump case to postpone the trial until the Supreme Court examines his political immunity in another case.
The trial of Trump’s accusations regarding the payment of hush money to the actress Stormy Daniels is scheduled to be held on March 25 in the District Court of Manhattan, New York.
New York prosecutors stated that before the 2016 election, Trump asked his former lawyer Michael Cohen to pay $130,000 as to pay her hush money in exchange for her sexual relationship with Daniels and then show this amount as legal expenses by forging the payment documents.
This is Trump’s latest request to delay one of his four criminal cases before the presidential election. Republic is November and a possible confrontation with Joe Biden.
A few days ago An American judge officially tried the trial of former US President Donald Trump’s accusations of trying to change It postponed the results of the 2020 elections that were supposed to be held next month.
The order to delay the holding of this court, which was expected, after the announcement Trump’s lawyers claimed in a lawsuit that the former president is immune from any prosecution for official actions while in office. The case has been on hold in federal courts since December while Trump pursues his appeal.
A few days later The Court of Appeals in the United States ruled that Donald Trump was acquitted of the charges of trying to There is no immunity from changing the results of the 2020 elections. The court concluded that any executive immunity that might have protected Trump from criminal charges during his presidency no longer protects him in this case..
With this ruling, Trump’s efforts to avoid appearing in court on charges of endangering democracy in the United States and the peaceful transition of power in 2021, with He failed and may even affect his position as the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 election.
Meanwhile, Trump asked the Supreme Court justices to uphold the February 6 court ruling. based on the rejection of his political immunity in the case of trying to change the results of the 2020 elections, to stop.
Lawyers Trump warned the Supreme Court that holding a lengthy criminal trial for President Trump at the height of the election season would interfere with his ability to compete with Joe Biden.
Trump also appeared in a federal court in Florida and asked a judge to allow a criminal court to hear his allegations about keeping classified documents after leaving the White House. to postpone until he is in the middle of holding election campaigns.
According to this report His lawyers asked Florida District Judge Eileen Cannon to postpone the trial from May 20 to August 12 because the former president is busy campaigning for re-election to the White House. span style=”background-color:white”>.
while Trump had previously requested the postponement of all 4 of his criminal cases so that he could focus on his election activities. . If he becomes president again, he can close this criminal case against him and open another case against him under federal law.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump is currently facing multiple criminal charges: attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents in his private villa in Florida after leaving the White House, paying an immoral movie star a hush-hush fee, and trying to sway the election results in the state of Georgia. He is also involved in fraud and financial charges. In addition, the former American president is facing a case of paying damages to a writer who accused him of sexual assault.
But Trump denied any wrongdoing in these cases. He considers the rejection and presentation of these accusations to be only politically motivated and with the aim of removing him from the 2024 election contest.
If Trump is re-elected president, He can apply for a pardon for any federal charges against him. It will be held on November 5, 2024. According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos polls in February, former US President Donald Trump with 37% popularity has surpassed the current US President Joe Biden with 34% popularity, and the competition between the two is going shoulder to shoulder.
Currently, both competitors have been absolute winners in the primaries within the Democratic and Republican parties and have been nominated as the preferred candidate of their party.
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