Judge Juan Merchan Considering 'Tossing' Trump ConvictionsNov. 6, 2024

The New York judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is considering tossing his felony convictions after the former president won Tuesday’s election, CNN reported Wednesday.

Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels.

The country’s 45th president is set to be sentenced in the case on Nov. 26, but whether the hearing will happen is now being decided by Judge Juan Merchan.

CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reidreported Wednesday eveningthat Merchan will give himself until next week to decide if tossing those convictions is appropriate.

During CNN’s ongoing coverage of the 2024 election, network anchor Jake Tapper welcomed Reid to discuss Trump’s felony criminal case in New York. She reported:

I’m told that his legal team is going to try to make sure that sentencing never happens. As we know, their usual strategy is always to just try to get things delayed. But here they’re going to argue to the judge that the sentencing should never happen because now that Trump is president-elect, they will say that he is entitled to the same constitutional protections as a sitting president and should be protected from state actors and in this case, state prosecutors and the judge overseeing that case, Judge Juan Merchan.

He’s giving himself a deadline of November 12th to decide if the conviction against Trump should be tossed based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on immunity. If he tosses the conviction, there’ll be no sentencing. But if that sentencing continues to go forward, this is the argument that the Trump team is going to make.

Trump’s two federal cases are also expected to be dropped while special counsel Jack Smith winds them down. The former president previously vowed to fire Smith if he won the election. As for Trump’s RICO case in Georgia, CNN reported:

There is no clear answer as to whether a state-level prosecutor, like [Fulton County DA Fani Willis], can prosecute a sitting president.Trump’s victory now forces Willis to confront that constitutional question in addition to the existing legal issues that have already cast uncertainly over the Georgia case’s future.

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>>21932501 Barr Confirms- Both State And Federal Cases Are Dead After Djt Election Win 5:00PN

What I saw: Bill Barr is normally cheerful when on interviews, during this entire interview he looked somewhat worried. He didn't smile once, that sounds strange only because on his really critical interviews of Trump he smiled quite a bit. Maybe he is trying to gain favor with Trump knowing he intentionally blocked prosecutors from going after voter fraud in 2020 viciously.

Either Barr did illegal things in the 2020 elections or he was told by PDJT to oppose letting the investigations on election fraud.

Based on his history, I think it was the first, he opposed the investigation of cheating, and it just happened to be God's will for Trump not to win in 2020; because the plan was to "show the people how bad it was under Democrats".The country has literally come to the precipice of losing our Free Country during the last four years, and newly awoken to the Truth saved it!

Trump was not exaggerating when he said if Kamala won we would have lost Freedom forever!

If anyone is interested, watch the video of Barr and see if you think what I saw and sense is correct. I think there are lot of very worried DS out there including the Obamas, Clintons, Bushs, Cheney and many others acknowledging in their hateful way, Trump and Vance won with a tepid congrats, and an undercurrent ofthat they are not going to stop going after him.The really weren't subtle in some of statements.==. They all could have given a short and sweet Congratulations, but they didn't.