Sentence against Donald Trump will be known on July 11

The sentence against the former president donald trumpfound this Thursday guilty of 34 charges for falsifying documents to hide an adulterous relationship and not jeopardize his presidential race in 2016, will be known on July 11.

After hearing the jury’s guilty verdict, the judge Juan Merchan announced that it will read the sentence on July 11 at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT), that is, exactly six weeks from today.

That date almost coincides with the Republican National Convention that begins on July 15 and which foresees the official proclamation of Trump as the party’s candidate, as all his rivals have withdrawn.

Until today, and without knowing the verdict, Trump leads his Democratic rival, the current president Joe Biden, who is seeking re-election in almost all the polls.

Judge Merchan can sentence Trump to a sentence ranging from probation to four years in prison, and while no article of the Constitution prevents a convicted person from running for president, no one has yet made it very clear whether the office could be held. from a prison.

Republican leaders support him

Prominent figures of the Republican Party this Thursday closed ranks with former United States President Donald Trump and criticized the jury’s verdict that found him guilty of falsifying business records to silence a sexual relationship with a porn actress.

One of the first to react was the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, a firm ally of Trump, who declared on social networks that “Today is a shameful day in American history.”.

The leader of the Lower House accused the president of the United States, Joe Biden, of using the judicial system “as a weapon” against Trump, Republican candidate in next November’s elections, and assured that “Democrats will stop at nothing to silence dissent”.

“President Trump will rightly appeal this absurd verdict, and he WILL WIN!”Johnson predicted.

For Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, whose name is in the pool of possible Trump vice presidents, the verdict represents a “derision” to the American judicial system.

It has been, he said, a “political show“carried out by a judge”openly” pro Biden, which in his opinion shows that the Democratic side will do everything in its power to stay in power.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who lost the Republican primary against Trump and later offered his support, said the “verdict represents the culmination of a legal process that has been subject to the political will” of the prosecutor, the judge and the jury.

“If the defendant was not Donald Trump, this case would never have been filed”, he opined.

Also the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, a Trump ally, criticized the jury’s decision, ensuring that the trial was a “farce”, and took the opportunity to campaign for the New York magnate: “Americans deserve better than a president who Use the court system to pursue an opponent. We must fire Joe Biden in November,” he said.

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, from the most radical wing of the party and known for her support of conspiracy theories, posted an upside-down United States flag on social media in protest of the jury’s decision.

Another legislator who appears as Trump’s eventual number two, JD Vance, also pointed out that the decision is a “disgrace for the rule of law” and the country’s Constitution and estimated that what has happened cannot be described as justice, but as “electoral interference”.

The former president faced 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, all related to reimbursing his lawyer for paying a total of US$130,000 in 2016 to porn actress Stormy Daniels to hush up an alleged sexual relationship in 2006.

Trump, 77, became the first former president in US history to be convicted in a criminal trial, as well as the first major party candidate to run for President being declared a felon.