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Trump is steps closer to having his convictions erased due to a hush money verdict.

Trump is steps closer to having his convictions erased due to a hush money verdict.

Donald Trump faces the incredible prospect of the many criminal cases plaguing him disappearing now that he has been re-elected.

“Each one of them will leave by one mechanism or another,” former Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore told DailyMail.com.

The first development that could set Trump free and clear is the Nov. 12 deadline that Judge Juan Merchan set for deciding whether his 34-count conviction in his New York hush money case should stand after Supreme Court decisions on “immunity.” .

That leaves room to push the envelope if Merchan wants to wipe his hands clean on the case, although some legal experts don’t think it will stand up to scrutiny on its merits.

Many of the details of the case—the “hush” payments Trump made to porn star Stormy Daniels to reimburse his lawyer during the 2016 campaign—could be seen as “private” actions outside the perimeter of presidential power that the Court sought to protect.

But the case included testimony about Trump’s conversations with former aide Michael Cohen in the Oval Office during his presidency, which led to the case being close to his time in office.

Trump is steps closer to having his convictions erased due to a hush money verdict.

Many of the criminal cases Donald Trump faced will disappear now that he has been re-elected.

Another option: Judge Merchan, 62, could conceivably “adjourn the whole case” until January 20, 2028, and say, “I’m going to defer judgment until you’re done being president,” a New York lawyer told DailyMail for criminal cases Arthur Aidala. com.

New York judges can serve up to 70 years, meaning Merchan himself could still hand down a sentence—though Trump, a first-time offender, would be 82 years old.

Another option, Parlatore said, is for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to waive any punishment himself, thereby upholding Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsification of records.

“The easiest thing would be for New York to leave the sentence as it is and have Alvin Bragg come in and say we think a felony conviction is enough and that’s why we’re asking for probation,” he said.

However, the most likely outcome is that he will “give him a serious beating,” Aidala said, without imposing any jail time.

He is scheduled to be sentenced in this case on November 26.

President Joe Biden faces a new pressure campaign pardon Trump as a gesture of goodwill aimed at putting the “laws” of yesteryear in the rearview mirror. The President spoke today in the White House Rose Garden and called for “bringing down the temperature.” He has an incentive to improve his relationship with Trump: He has repeatedly vowed to go after Biden and his family while taking “retaliation” against prosecutors and the people he accuses of targeting him.

A source close to Trump's legal defense predicted that special prosecutor Jack Smith would resign and the government would take steps to drop the charges against him.

A source close to Trump’s legal defense predicted that special prosecutor Jack Smith would resign and the government would take steps to drop the charges against him.

Judge Juan Merchan may give Trump a tongue lashing or jail time

Judge Juan Merchan may give Trump a tongue lashing or jail time

Biden should “pardon Donald Trump on all federal charges and relieve special prosecutor Jack Smith of his duties,” wrote Mark Antonio Wright in National Review, then demand that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pardon him for all the crimes for which he was convicted. sentenced to New York.

This would relieve Trump of the burden of doing what he has already promised to do – fire Jack Smith and end the criminal cases against him. Trump said he would fire him “within two seconds” if he was re-elected.

But there are already reports that the Justice Department is now looking for ways to “wind down” its efforts in other cases against Trump – in particular, the January 6 case in Washington, D.C., and charges accusing him of illegally exporting national security documents to March . a-Lago and obstruction of justice.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the government resigns in the next two or three days,” a source close to Trump’s defense told DailyMail.com. “In any case, we haven’t heard anything about them.”

Trump’s secret documents in the Florida case have already been thrown out by Trump-appointed Judge Eileen Cannon. Although the Justice Department is currently appealing, the feds could rely on the existing brief against prosecuting presidents while they are in office to withdraw the appeal.

The Jan. 6 case “will also be dismissed,” Parlatore predicted, although he conceded that Judge Tanya Chutkan could put the case on hold for four years.

“Is there any fairness to a four-year stay, which I don’t believe in,” said Parlatore, who left Trump’s legal team after working on the documents case and Jan. 6.

Trump’s case in Georgia, where he is accused of plotting to overturn the election results (he represented the state this time on Tuesday), could also be thrown out, perhaps if the Georgia Supreme Court decides to remove Trump’s nemesis, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. happening.