Trump Re-elected Amid Legal Battles 

United States: Donald Trump has been re-elected to the White House, even though he has been found guilty of a crime in New York and is still waiting to be sentenced. He is also working on fighting other legal cases in different states. 

Trump has said multiple times that he will fire special counsel Jack Smith and close the federal cases against him for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election and mishandling documents containing classified information. 

On Wednesday, Smith is negotiating with the Justice Department top brass on how the federal cases against Trump can be concluded, according to a senior DOJ official familiar with the process. 

As reported by CNN Politics, “It obviously proved effective to do all one could to apply pressure to have these cases postponed as long as possible,” said Jessica Levinson, who teaches constitutional law at Loyola Law School. 

Meanwhile, a judge in New York is yet to determine the punishment for the former president later this month after delaying the punishment before Election Day to preempt influencing the presidency race – Nonetheless Trump’s lawyers may be hoping to persuade the judge to postpone the sentencing now that Trump is president-elect. 

Trump has entered a formal denial to all these charges. Here’s what to know about the four criminal cases: 

New York sentencing 

Trump is to stand in a New York court on November 26 to receive a sentence for his conviction last this year on 34 charges of$250,000 fraud to cover up a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep mum about an affair with Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. (Trump denies the affair.) 

Whether that sentencing happens at all remains an open question. 

The Trump legal team is going to attempt to make pretty sure that sentencing does not happen. Earlier it was used to merely postpone the case and now it is going to try to get it dismissed claims a source well versed in its upcoming tactics.