Sixty days before the presidential election in USA Donald Trump, who is the candidate of the Republican Party, called a press conference in the iconic skyscraper Trump Tower in New York. In front of the journalists, however, he focused more on his legal problems than on his strategy against his rival from the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, notes France Presse, quoted by BTA.
Before the representatives of the media, Trump recalled the trials against him and described them as a witch hunt. Trump has criticized his lawyers, saying they have let him down in their work.
It wasn't until 40 minutes into the tirade devoted to his legal troubles that the Republican began talking about his rival Harris and assured that she is at the top of the public trust polls.
Later today, Trump heads to North Carolina, one of the key states in the presidential race, where the first mail-in ballots were delayed by a court order. In North Carolina, Trump will speak through a powerful police union.
Today it became clear that in one of the cases in which Trump was found guilty in May - that of accounting violations - the sentence will be pronounced on November 26 after the presidential election. The verdict was originally supposed to be handed down this month.
At the end of a historic trial - the first criminal trial against a former US president - Donald Trump was found guilty in late May of 34 counts of falsifying accounting documents that he used to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels shortly before her 2016 presidential victory. The payment was supposed to buy her silence about a sexual relationship she alleged she had with Trump in 2006. Trump and Daniels deny having such a relationship.
Donald Trump is facing criminal charges in three other cases, but there will be no further court hearings before the presidential election.
The decision to delay sentencing in the porn actress' case means American voters won't know who she is when they go to the polls or vote by mail.
In theory, the maximum sentence for Donald Trump in the hidden payments case is prison, but many experts believe that the judge in the case is more likely to hand down an alternative sentence, such as probation.