Republican Donald Trump received some excellent news on Friday: the judge presiding over his trial for secret payments to a former porn star postponed sentencing until after the presidential election on November 5.
An important victory for the Republican candidate, which comes four days before the debate with Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
The Republican candidate for the White House was scheduled to be sentenced on September 18 after being found guilty of falsifying accounting records, but Judge Juan Merchan postponed the sentence to November 26.
“The witch hunt in Manhattan has been put on hold because everyone realizes there is NO CASE. I DID NOTHING WRONG!” he wrote on his Truth Social network. “This case should be closed,” the Republican added, elated.
Judge Juan Merchan’s decision came minutes after Trump gave a long-winded speech about his legal problems.
The former president had called reporters to a press conference at one of his properties in New York, Trump Tower, for no particular reason.
Wearing his traditional red tie, he spoke about his civil trial for sexual assault and his criminal conviction in late May.
He called it, as he often does, a “witch hunt” to prevent him from winning the election.
Visibly irritated, the former president even attacked his lawyers, who were stunned. He was “disappointed” with their work, he said.
After 40 minutes, he started talking about his rival Kamala Harris, saying that he was way ahead in the polls, when in reality they were very close.
After this speech, the Republican headed to North Carolina, one of the most hotly contested states in the election, where the sending of the first mail-in ballots has been delayed by a judge’s decision.
There he spoke before a powerful police union.
Trump accuses President Joe Biden and Harris of being responsible for a wave of crimes he links to illegal immigration.
“Kamala Harris and the communists have caused a real bloodbath in our country,” he said in Charlotte, something that the statistics contradict.
Security and immigration remain issues where Kamala Harris shows a credibility deficit, according to several polls.
Debate
His campaign team published a letter of support signed by police officers on Friday.
“In November, Americans will have to choose between someone who has spent her life enforcing our laws and someone who has been convicted of breaking them,” the message reads, referring to the fact that the Democrat was a prosecutor and to Trump’s criminal conviction.
The Republican, who is indicted in several other cases and accused in particular of having tried to alter the outcome of the 2020 election, will hold a rally on Saturday in Wisconsin, another highly contested state.
His rival set up his base camp in Pennsylvania on Thursday to prepare for the debate with Trump, which will be held on the ABC channel in Philadelphia.
The vice president gave her second interview since entering the race, this time to a Latin radio station.
According to a poll released Wednesday, 59 percent of Latinos support the Democrat, although many believe that neither she nor Trump are addressing their biggest concern: the cost of living.
In the interview, she recalled that during her term and Biden’s, small businesses owned by Latinos have experienced “record growth” and she will continue to support them, with a tax deduction of $50,000 for the creation of a new business.
“We have to move on from this Trump era, you know, this person who has talked about how immigrants poison the lifeblood of America, this person who seeks to divide our nation, belittling people, belittling members of the military,” the vice president said.
Hundreds of millions
According to the press, Harris will make several public appearances before the televised confrontation. This breaks with Biden’s strategy, which was to isolate himself for several days to prepare for the June debate against Donald Trump. It was of little use. His performance was so catastrophic that the Democrats themselves forced him to throw in the towel.
Harris, 59, has $404 million to fund her campaign, while Trump has $295 million, according to their respective teams.
Harris on Friday won the endorsement of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, which could help her win over moderate voters.
The octogenarian, known for his ultra-conservative positions, said that Donald Trump constituted the “greatest threat” to democracy due above all to his role during the assault on the Capitol
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2024-09-12 08:56:28