Ten days before his inauguration… Trump facing a trouble after failing to postpone the sentencing hearing in the hush money case

US President-elect Donald Trump, who was convicted in New York of buying the silence of Porn actress, failed to postpone his sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday, ten days before his inauguration.

Lawyers for Trump, who will become the 47th president of the United States on January 20, have requested an “automatic suspension” of the order issued on January 3 by a Manhattan criminal court judge, which stipulates a hearing on January 10 at 09:30 (13:30 GMT) for Trump to learn the sentence imposed on him.

The sentence will be pronounced ten days before his inauguration in Washington, although it is unlikely to include imprisonment.

“The court should set aside the January 10, 2025 sentencing hearing and suspend all time limits in this case until the challenges to President Trump’s immunity are fully and finally exhausted and the case is ultimately dismissed,” Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emile Bove, wrote in an appeal filed Sunday.

The two lawyers will hold the second and third positions, respectively, in the structure of the US Department of Justice in the next administration.

Manhattan District Court Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over Stormy Daniels’ case in which a jury convicted him of criminal wrongdoing on May 30, didn’t delay in ruling on the request.

On Monday evening, Mershan said, “The guilty party’s appeal to suspend the proceedings, including the ruling scheduled for January 10, has been rejected.”

On May 30, a New York jury convicted the former president, who was re-elected in November, on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a payment made to former porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to prevent her from speaking out about an affair she says they had.

Trump isn’t accused of paying these checks, but rather of severe accounting fraud to conceal a plot to undermine the results of the 2016 election which he won against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Trump and his inner circle have repeatedly criticized a campaign to discredit him orchestrated by the New York state judiciary and the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden.

Trump failed to overturn the landmark ruling on the grounds of presidential immunity, a constitutional principle that the US Supreme Court expanded on July 1 in favor of the Republican.