Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election

Trump at a news conference on September 6, 2024.AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah

The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial ruled on Friday that he won’t sentence the former president until November 26. Juan Merchan, who Trump has relentlessly accused of bias against him, wrote in his decision that the delay was “to avoid any appearance—however unwarranted—that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching Presidential election in which the Defendant is a........

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