In a letter released to the public on Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s legal team asked Judge Juan Merchan for a delay in Trump’s sentencing in the Manhattan trial. That sentencing is currently scheduled for September 18th. The Trump legal team claims, among other things, that a sentencing that close amounts to election interference.
Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election.
In a letter made public Thursday, a lawyer for the former president and current Republican nominee suggested that sentencing Trump as scheduled on Sept. 18 — about seven weeks before Election Day — would amount to election interference.
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche wrote that a delay would also allow Trump time to weigh next steps after the trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, is expected to rule Sept. 16 on…
