Pending the ruling of Judge Juan Merchán for the former president and current candidate Donald Trumpwhich will take place on July 11 if no problems arise, Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, He assured that his right to vote is guaranteed in that state.
The trial in New York on 34 charges related to the payment of US$130,000 to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for his silence in the campaign for the 2016 elections led the jury to declare the former president guiltyso he is now awaiting Merchán’s sentence.
From the verdict, the judge has the option of financially fine the businessman, grant him probation or send him to prison, although there is still the possibility of filing an appeal before the mentioned date. Should he be sentenced to jail or spend time on probation, the former president, whose candidacy would be valid anyway, would lose the right to vote in the November 5 elections.
To bring tranquility to Trump’s environment, it was the governor of Florida who assured that his right to vote in that state is guaranteed, whatever the sentence handed down by the judge. Given the jury’s controversial ruling last Thursday, DeSantis spoke out a day later through his social networks and expressed his support.
“Former President Donald Trump has not lost his right to vote in Florida. The rights are not eliminated in Floridawhere they have not yet been stripped in the sentencing jurisdiction,” he maintained, and then clarified that “given the absurd nature of Trump’s prosecution in New Yorkthis would be an easy case to qualify for restoration of rights, according to the Florida Clemency Board.”
The cases that Trump faces in the United States
After becoming the first former president to be convicted by a court ruling in US history, Trump, who is in the middle of his campaign, faces three more trials: one federal case in Miami, another in Washington DC and one remaining in Georgia.
In Miami, the former president faces charges for safeguard classified documents in your residence in Mar-a-Lagoin Palm Beach, after leaving office as president, in 2021. In the country’s capital, Trump faces charges for his alleged responsibility in the attack on the Capitolwhile in Georgia it is charged with thirteen counts of conspiracy to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
