Trump Asks to Delay Hush Money Sentencing

President-elect Donald Trump remains on track to be sentenced this week in his hush money case after a judge on Monday denied his request to halt proceedings while he appeals a ruling that upheld the historic verdict.

Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan ordered sentencing to proceed as scheduled on Friday, a little more than a week before Trump’s inauguration. The judge rejected a push by Trump’s lawyers to postpone it indefinitely while they ask a state appeals court to reverse his decision last week that let the conviction stand.

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