The original plan was for Trump’s sentencing to occur on July 11.
Following the ruling on Monday by the nation’s top court that previous presidents had partial immunity for “official” activities during their term, his legal team requested that his conviction in a hush-money case be annulled.
On Tuesday, Justice Juan Merchan declared that he would rule on the requests by September 6.
The judge noted that if sentencing is required, it will be on September 18.
Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of 34 felonies for fabricating corporate records when a New York jury found him guilty of the charges in May.
According to the prosecution, Trump paid back his fixer, Michael Cohen, hush money to a porn star who stated she had an affair with him. The funds were disguising themselves as legal expenses in order to conceal their payment on election eve in 2016.
Out of Trump’s four criminal cases, this is the first one to go to trial.
Not long after Justice Merchan’s decision, Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that the postponement was “TOTAL EXONERATION!” and that it “ends” the “witch hunts against me.”
