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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Manhattan prosecutors blast Trump attempts to ‘malign and menace’ hush money judge and families

Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial to preserve the jury’s 34-count guilty verdict, even if it means postponing any sentencing until after his presidency comes to an end in 2029.

But Trump can’t be shielded from criminal prosecution as “president-elect,” because “president-elect immunity does not exist,” they wrote in a lengthy filing made public on Tuesday.

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