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The former president (2017-2021) was found guilty last week in a Manhattan court of 34 serious crimes associated with falsifying business records with the intention of preventing the disclosure in 2016 of an affair with the porn actress, which would have occurred 10 years before.
Trump – the first former president of the United States in history to be convicted in a criminal trial – will participate with his lawyer Todd Blanche in the virtual interview from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
The court required this step before delivering its final sentencing report, and Trump’s defense team is expected to present its sentencing recommendation on June 13.
At the same time, for the former occupant of the Oval Office it is essential that his legal team achieve a successful appeal before the higher courts in order to delay the sentencing hearing beyond July 11, when it must be announced.
Former President Trump could face a sentence of between one year and four months in prison up to four years for each charge for which he was indicted.
According to local media, the former commander in chief is not obliged to collaborate with the investigation prior to the sentencing; however, a lack of cooperation could be detrimental.
During Trump’s criminal trial – three more are pending – several witnesses appeared for the prosecution, one of them his former lawyer and cover Michael Cohen, who made the payment of $130,000 to Daniels, and she also took the stand to offer a detailed testimony about her sexual encounter with the tycoon.
The 12-member jury unanimously found him guilty on all counts of falsifying business records, specifically related to 11 invoices, 12 vouchers and 11 checks.
Trump attempted to prevent Daniels from going public with her story at a time when he needed to protect his 2016 presidential run.
The first round of polls after the verdict showed that the race between Trump and the current head of the White House, Joe Biden, remains very close.
However, a poll by The New York Times with Siena College warned that Biden won over Trump by around two percentage points after the ruling, although it is suggested that the figure falls within the margin of error.
However, there are interesting readings because the opinion poll was done with the same group of people who responded prior to the verdict and now “the change was especially pronounced among the young, non-white and disconnected Democratic-leaning voters” who boosted the advantage of Trump in the previous poll.
The responses indicated that after the jury’s ruling, voters said that they were likely to stay with Biden.
Perhaps the president “gained a little more than a two-point improvement among those we successfully re-engaged,” Nate Cohn, the Times’ chief political analyst, was quoted as saying in press reports.
Meanwhile, an April NBC News investigation found that only 64 percent of registered voters said they were “very interested” in the 2024 election, the lowest level since the question was first asked in 2008.
Only 36 percent of voters between 18 and 34 years old consider themselves very interested in the elections, the NBC News study indicated, but at this time the Times/Sienna survey warned that this is the age group that changed the most after the verdict against Trump.
Less than five months before the elections in the United States, the forecast is that the November 2020 confrontation between the Biden and Trump duel will be repeated.
But predicting an eventual outcome is difficult because, in the end, as in baseball, you have to wait for the last out.
