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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 23, 2024, p. 18
New York., The judge in the case against Donald Trump for buying the silence of the former porn actress, Stormy Daniels, decided to indefinitely postpone the announcement of her sentence, while the magnate’s team celebrated the decision as a decisive victory.
The man, of Colombian origin, Juan Merchán, postponed sine die the sentence that he planned to announce on November 26 and accepted that the defense can present an appeal before December 2 to dismiss the case.
He also called for both sides to file additional documents over the next two and a half weeks on how to proceed in light of Trump’s imminent return to the White House, while the president-elect’s lawyers want the case to be dismissed completely and immediately, because of Otherwise, it will interfere with his presidential transition and his duties.
The Manhattan case has been completely suspended and the sentence was postponed celebrated the spokesman for the future president and next director of communications of the White House, Steven Cheung, in a statement in which he denounced several farces judicial against the republican.
The American people issued a mandate to return him to office and get rid of all cases of witch hunts.he added.
Trump was convicted in May of falsifying his company records to disguise the true nature of a series of payments that provided $130,000 (for an alleged extramarital affair) to the former porn actress, who received the money through then-lawyer of the magnate in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Gaetz does not return to his seat in Congress
Former Republican legislator Matt Gaetz announced yesterday that he will not return to the US Congress when the new session begins on January 3 under the new presidential administration.
In a statement made at the end of a week and in which he withdrew his nomination for US attorney general due to a scandal of alleged sexual misconduct.
I’m going to keep fighting, but it’s going to be from a new perch. I will not join the 119th United States CongressGaetz announced during an interview with ultra-conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has chosen prominent investor Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary, a Cabinet position with broad influence on economic, regulatory and international affairs.
In addition, the next occupant of the White House plans to assemble different investigative teams in the Department of Justice to investigate the 2020 elections in disputed states, since fraud tarnished such elections, a source informed yesterday Washington Post. It should be remembered that Joe Biden won the presidency in them.
Meanwhile, the Texas board of education voted to allow Bible-based instruction in elementary schools, joining other Republican-led states that pushed to give religion a greater presence in classrooms.