Donald Trump requests postponement of his criminal trial in New York

Former US President Donald Trump asked the New York courts on Monday March 11 to postpone his historic criminal trial by at least one month, from March 25, in a case of payments to an adult film actress. The lawyers of the former President of the United States invoke the argument of his criminal immunity which will be debated by the Federal Supreme Court in Washington from April 25.

Targeted by four criminal proceedings, the 77-year-old Republican candidate is seeking through multiple appeals to go to trial as late as possible, in any case after the November 5 election.

He faces up to four years in prison

Donald Trump is due to appear in criminal court in New York on March 25 – a first for a former American president – ​​for a case of payments to a former pornographic film star, Stormy Daniels. He is being prosecuted for 34 accounting frauds carrying a maximum sentence of four years in prison if the former tenant of the White House is found guilty. The courts could, however, impose an alternative sentence and not send him behind bars.

Donald Trump, who pleads not guilty, is accused of having disguised the accounts of his real estate empire Trump Organization to conceal $130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, just before the November 2016 presidential election. according to the prosecution, that she kept silent about an alleged sexual relationship in 2006 when he was already married to Melania Trump. The person concerned denies any relationship with Stephanie Clifford.

Trump has already managed to postpone a federal criminal trial in Washington scheduled to begin on March 4 for “conspiracy against the American state”, i.e. his illicit attempts, notably on January 6, 2021, to reverse the results of the The November 2020 election won by Joe Biden. The procedure is suspended while the question of presidential criminal immunity is decided by the Supreme Court.