Colombian judge Juan Merchán orders Donald Trump to appear in court to read his sentence

The New York judge presiding over the case for covert payments to a former porn actress against the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, set the sentencing reading this Friday for January 10, 10 days before his inauguration.

Judge Juan Merchán also stated that he is not inclined to impose a prison sentence on the former president.

Judge Juan Merchán was the one who presided over the trial against President-elect Donald Trump for alleged payments to Stormy Daniels. Trump’s defense assured that, since he had already been elected as president of the North American country, he already has total immunity and the case should be discarded.

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Merchán assured that he does not accept the arguments of the president-elect’s defense and that the sentence must occur before the political leader takes office as president.

Donald Trump will be able to attend the reading of the sentence against him virtually or in person.

Will Donald Trump go to jail?

The elected president of the United States, Donald Trumpwill not go to jail after being found guilty of a payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election so that she would not reveal the details of an alleged sexual encounter between the two. The Colombian judge said in the document that he is not inclined to a prison sentence because he does not see it as appropriate.

Even the sentence against Donald Trump could not be economic but rather symbolic so that he remains convicted and sentenced by a judge, taking into account that a jury had found him guilty of 34 charges related to falsification of accounting records. .

Donald Trump He is the first president elected as a convicted felon in the history of the United States and will continue with that status when he assumes the presidency of his country.

Furthermore, the Colombian judge maintained that Trump must continue with his mandate, that no type of mobility limitation or any legal limitation can be established to prevent him from exercising his functions as president.

So far, Trump has not commented on the judge’s decision, whom he has criticized in the past for his alleged bias in favor of the Democratic Party. Merchan orders the accused to appear “in person or virtually” next Friday at 9:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. GMT) to hear the sentence, but already anticipates that it will not include a prison sentence.

“It seems appropriate at this juncture to make known the inclination of this Court not to impose a prison sentence, a sentence authorized by his guilt, but which the Prosecutor’s Office no longer sees as a practical recommendation,” the judge reasons in his considerations.

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He added that there are “concerns about the doctrine of presidential immunity,” referring to the defense’s main argument.

The diary The Washington Post writes that this sentence will make history because it will be the first time that a president convicted of a serious crime assumes the highest office of the nation.