New York Judge Juan Merchan last Friday postponed Donald Trump's hush-money case sentencing until Nov. 26 to avoid any appearance of influencing the election between the former president and Vice President Kamala Harris. But the stay in Trump's fate might in fact doom him later, according to former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team.
“Sentencing Donald Trump after the election, if he loses, makes it much more likely that you can think about sending him to jail,” he told MSNBC host Jen Psaki. The moment he loses, Weissman said, Trump would be a mere "Citizen Trump" rather than a presidential candidate, a status that could expose him to the weight of impartial justice.
