Prosecutors oppose dismissing the conviction in the Stormy Daniels case and are open to waiting for Trump to finish the presidency

This Tuesday, the prosecutors handling the case against Trump for falsifying the payment to actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence have presented documents indicating how the process should continue after the magnate won the elections. The presentation also coincides with the new date set by Merchan to rule on presidential immunity.

For now, New York prosecutors have said they will oppose any effort to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction as his sentencing is imminent, but they are willing to delay the case until after his second term.

Initially, Merchan had set November 12 as the deadline to rule on presidential immunity. Although when the expected day arrived, the judge announced that he was delaying the date again until this Tuesday the 19th.

In September, the judge had already announced that he was also postponing the sentence for the sentence in the Stormy Daniels case after the November 5 elections and set November 26 as a new date. The decision, as argued in the document presented, responded to the desire not to influence the possible outcome of the elections. Throughout the process, Trump had capitalized on the trial to show himself as the victim of alleged political persecution.

In June, the Supreme Court ruling ruled that the president has immunity for “official acts,” but not for those of a private nature, leaving it up to the rest of the courts to decide where the official ends and the private begins. The conclusion reached by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court, of six votes in favor and three against by the progressive judges, was in relation to Trump’s federal case for the attempted assault on the Capitol on January 6, although it has an impact on all the causes that the now president-elect keeps open.

Most of the crimes for which Trump was convicted in the Stormy Daniels case occurred before he became president. The mogul was still a private citizen when his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, made the payment to the porn actress in exchange for her silence to avoid a scandal in the middle of the 2016 election campaign. Trump wanted to prevent it from becoming known that in the In the past he had had sexual relations with the actress while he was already married to Melania for fear of how that could affect the polls.

Instead, Trump was already president when he repaid the money that Cohen had initially put out of his own pocket to pay Daniels. The payment was recorded as “legal expenses,” something that was a violation of the electoral finance law and one of the crimes for which the Republican was found guilty. The penalty for document falsification is up to four years in prison in New York.