Trump to be sentenced days before Republican National Convention
NEW YORK — The judge has set Donald Trump’s sentencing just a few days before Republicans are set to select him as the 2024 nominee.
Judge Juan Merchan set the sentencing hearing for 10 a.m. EDT on July 11.
The date is close to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which is set to begin on July 15.
Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
Jurors deliberated for 9.5 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced.
He sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read, while cheering from the street below — where supporters and detractors of the former president were gathered — could be heard in the hallway on the 15th floor of the courthouse.