Judge Juan Merchan has set the date for former President Donald Trump’s sentencing after the Manhattan jury found him guilty on all counts on Thursday — and it falls four days before the start of the Republican National Convention where Trump is set to be nominated.
After beginning deliberations on Wednesday, the jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. After the verdict was delivered, Merchan scheduled the sentencing for July 11, just days before the GOP convention in Milwaukee that will begin on July 15.
The sentencing date set by Merchan was blasted by Donald Trump Jr., who wrote on X, “Sentencing is 4 days before the GOP Convention…They’re not even trying to hide the ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!!”
The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis added, “The corrupt Biden donor judge whose daughter raised millions attacking Trump just coincidentally scheduled the Soviet show trial sentencing to be a week before the GOP convention.”
Trump’s sentencing will also come just two weeks after his first presidential debate against President Joe Biden, which is scheduled for June 27.
Numerous top Republicans criticized the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros, against former President Donald Trump. Trump was convicted on all 34 counts related to payments to Stormy Daniels. Trump called the case a political witch hunt by Democrats to influence the upcoming election, claiming he couldn’t get a fair trial in a predominantly Democrat district. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis denounced the verdict as politically motivated, arguing that the justice system in places like New York City has been compromised, and asserting that such a case would not have been pursued against anyone other than Trump.
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Former President Donald Trump posted a video to social media Thursday evening following his conviction in the controversial Manhattan District Attorney’s Office criminal case against him over an alleged hush-money payment that he made during the 2016 election.
The decision is the culmination of a weeks-long courtroom battle in which Trump said that he was the target of a “political persecution” — a point that was seemingly validated when President Joe Biden sent his campaign to hold a political event outside the courthouse this week as he runs another campaign for a second term in the White House. The former president was found guilty on all 34 charges brought in the hush-money trial.
“This is the final battle,” Trump said in black-and-white video posted to Truth Social. “With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the war mongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists; we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”
Sources: Daily Wire, AP
