The American president-elect Donald Trumpwho was convicted in a criminal trial in the spring of making secret payments to a porn star to buy her silence, failed on Monday to secure a postponement of his sentencing, which is scheduled to take place on Friday, ten days before his swearing in.

In their latest legal maneuver, advocates of what will be from January 20 the 47th president of USA they demanded on Sunday, filing an appeal in a Manhattan district attorney’s office, the “automatic stay” of the criminal proceedings.

The latter plans, by virtue of an order given on January 3 by a judge of the state of New York in Manhattan, the sentence of Mr. Trump to be pronounced on January 10 at 09:30 (local time; 15:30 Greek time).

Thus, after a series of postponements, Donald Trump expects to learn his sentence, although the Republican tycoon who was re-elected on November 5 a priori is not expected to serve a prison sentence.

“The defendant’s appeal for a stay of proceedings is denied,” including “the sentencing scheduled for Jan. 10,” Judge Juan Mercan, who presided over the spring 2024 trial, said in a ruling released Monday night. on the Stormy Daniels case.

In their appeal, the advocates of Mr. Trump called on the judge to overturn the sentencing and the entire proceeding, citing Mr. Trump’s “immunity.” Trump and demanded that the case be “abandoned”.

The two New York lawyers, Todd Blunts and Emil Bove, are also anointed to become, respectively, number 2 and 3 in the Ministry of Justice of the Trump II administration.

But prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who handled the case, yesterday called on the court to “reject” the adjournment request and “sentence as scheduled on January 10”.

After a trial that lasted six weeks in the midst of a pre-election atmosphere, in an electric climate, Donald Trump became on May 30, 2024 the first former president (2017-2021) ever to be convicted in a criminal trial.

A Manhattan jury found him guilty of all 34 counts of fraud in order to secretly pay $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, shortly before the November 2016 presidential election. .

It was not just about buying her silence about sexual intercourse that she reported that they had with the billionaire, but about “accounting fraud with aggravating circumstances to conceal a conspiracy to alter the result of the 2016 election,” according to the justice.

Mr. Trump and his entourage have repeatedly denounced the “masquerade” and “witch hunt” organized against them by New York justice officials and the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump already failed in December to overturn this historic verdict against him by invoking his presidential immunity, which the Supreme Court decided to extend on July 1 – to the benefit of the former and future president.