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Washington, Jan 10. - The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, will be sentenced today in a New York court for 34 serious crimes in the case of falsifying commercial records to silence former porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Despite the defense's attempts to dismiss and prevent the sentence, Judge Juan Merchan rejected the request and yesterday the Republican lost before the Supreme Court his last appeal to delay the sentence for the crimes he was charged with, for which a jury of 12 members unanimously found him guilty in May of last year.
Trump asked the nation's highest court to postpone the sentence, but yesterday's verdict paved the way for the next 47th president to face the decision in this first criminal trial of a former president (2017-2021) who is about to return to the White House.
Ten days before taking office for his second non-consecutive term (2025-2029), the Republican is on track to receive a sentence that will not involve jail time, but which is still an unprecedented event.
The Supreme Court's announcement came a day after Judge Samuel Alito's statement that he received a phone call from Trump was reported in the press, but he said they did not discuss an emergency request that the former president's defense planned to file to delay the sentence.
In 2016, Trump used his then cover, lawyer Michael Cohen, who became a fierce critic, to arrange a payment of $130,000 to Daniels so that she would not open her mouth about an alleged affair with the New York magnate in 2006, which would have tarnished his reputation when he was immersed in his first presidential campaign.
The president-elect managed to avoid other legal entanglements - at least three more trials - after his victory in the November 5 elections; however, these problems were recurrent throughout his electoral campaign and at one point it was even thought that his political career was faltering. (Text and photo: PL)
