Judge postpones Trump’s sentencing in Manhattan ‘hush money’ case — and weighs tossing case entirely

A Manhattan judge has postponed Donald Trump’s sentencing on his conviction in his “hush money” case — and said he’ll weigh scrapping the case entirely in light of voters electing Trump as president.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he’ll consider claims from Trump’s lawyers that pressing on with such a case involving a president-elect would interfere with the “orderly transition of executive power” and be “uniquely destabilizing” to the country.

The decision to pause Trump’s sentencing makes it overwhelmingly likely that the president-elect will re-enter the White House largely unscathed by the four criminal cases that had threatened to derail his campaign or even put him behind bars.

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