Prosecutors oppose dismissing Trump's hush money conviction

NEW YORK — 

New York prosecutors reason immoderate effort to disregard President-elect Donald Trump's hush wealth conviction, but they expressed immoderate openness Tuesday to delaying sentencing until aft his impending 2nd term.

In a tribunal filing Tuesday, the Manhattan territory attorney's bureau said Trump's forthcoming presidency isn't grounds for dropping a lawsuit that was already tried. But "given the request to equilibrium competing law interests," prosecutors said, "consideration indispensable beryllium given" to perchance freezing the lawsuit until aft he's retired of office.

The erstwhile and aboriginal president was convicted successful May of falsifying concern records to screen up a strategy to power the 2016 predetermination by paying hush wealth to suppress a communicative of extramarital sex. Trump denies the allegations.

His sentencing had been acceptable for November 26. But aft Trump's predetermination triumph this month, his lawyers urged Judge Juan M. Merchan to propulsion retired the case. They wrote that it indispensable beryllium scrapped "to facilitate the orderly modulation of enforcement powerfulness — and successful the interests of justice."

Merchan gave prosecutors until Tuesday to measurement successful connected however to proceed.

Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday they "are mindful of the demands and obligations of the presidency" and recognize that Trump's instrumentality to the White House "will rise unprecedented ineligible questions."

"We besides profoundly respect the cardinal relation of the assemblage successful our law system," they said.

No determination has been made, and Merchan has not said erstwhile helium volition rule. Still, Trump spokesperson and incoming White House communications manager Steven Cheung formed Tuesday's filing from prosecutors arsenic "a full and definitive triumph for President Trump" successful a lawsuit that helium has agelong deplored arsenic a "witch hunt."

"President Trump's ineligible squad is moving to get it dismissed erstwhile and for all," Cheung said successful a statement.

A dismissal would erase Trump's historical conviction, sparing him the unreality of a transgression grounds arsenic good arsenic a imaginable situation sentence.

Merchan could besides determine to hold the lawsuit for immoderate different magnitude of time, hold until a national appeals tribunal rules connected Trump's parallel effort to get the lawsuit moved retired of authorities tribunal oregon take immoderate different option.

Trump was convicted connected 34 counts of falsifying concern records to conceal a $130,000 hush wealth outgo to porn histrion Stormy Daniels to suppress her assertion that they had enactment a decennary earlier. The outgo was made soon earlier the 2016 election.

Trump says they did not person enactment and denies immoderate wrongdoing.