He is still waiting to hear the sentence for the fraud committed in the payments to ‘Stormy Daniels’
The Republican Party candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, will set several records in January when he takes office as president for the second time, becoming the oldest person to do so and the first to sit in the Oval Office with a conviction already behind him.
The New York magnate, who has denounced a “witch hunt” against him in the judicial sphere, returns to the Presidency with numerous open fronts that, according to the results, have not taken their toll on him. On one of these fronts he already has a criminal conviction, in particular for 34 charges relating to the falsification of commercial records.
This case investigates the falsification of documents to hide the payment of $130,000 to the former porn actress ‘Stormy Daniels’, whom he paid to keep quiet about an alleged extramarital relationship shortly before the 2016 elections, the first in which Trump achieved victory.
Trump’s lawyers have sought to delay the sentence, which could be known this November, while fighting to prove his innocence in other cases such as the one that examines the alleged political interference after the 2020 elections. The judges will have to analyze not only the facts themselves but the range of immunity that Trump may enjoy as president.
In the case of the payments to ‘Stormy Daniels’, the maximum sentence is four years in prison, although the judge does not necessarily have to reach this limit and could opt for a lesser sentence, such as house arrest, community service or a fine. In that case, a new battle would open in which the lawyers would probably appeal to constitutional issues to prolong the process and delay it even for years.
This is not a federal case, but rather falls within the jurisdiction of the state of New York, so Trump would not have the ability to pardon himself once he takes office.
The United States has not yet had a president re-elected after facing impeachment. Trump has even been subjected to two political trials – one of them when he was still in his first term – although neither of them were successful thanks to the Republican majority in the Senate.
OLDER THAN BIDEN
Trump is currently 78 years old, the same age as the current president, Joe Biden, was sworn in in January 2021. In the campaign leading up to the 2020 elections, in fact, the tycoon mocked his rival’s age and questioned his ability to take the reins of the country, something that he again raised against him in the months leading up to these last elections and before Biden’s withdrawal.
However, it will be Trump who holds the record for the longest-serving president. While Biden arrived at the White House at 78 years and 61 days, the virtual winner of Tuesday’s elections will reopen the doors of the presidential headquarters at 78 years and 221 days.
Trump is even a month older than former President George W. Bush and is 15 years older than Barack Obama. The only former White House resident older than him is Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on October 1.
