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President-elect Donald Trump said he respects of the Supreme Court decision to deny his request to stay his conviction in New York against Trump, but said Thursday night that he will appeal, while stressing that “the law” has been an “attack on the Republican Party.”
Trump’s comments came moments later Supreme Court denied Trump’s emergency request to block his conviction on Friday, January 10. The sentence was scheduled by New York Judge Juan Merchan.
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Merchan last week said he would not sentence the president-elect to prison, but would issue an “unconditional discharge” sentence, meaning no punishment would be imposed.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“I’m the first president and probably one of the first candidates in history to be under attack with a gag order where I’m not allowed to talk about something,” Trump said during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night with republicans governors “This is far from over and I respect the court’s opinion.”
Trump said he thought the court’s ruling was a “very good opinion for us,” noting that the justices “invited appeal.”
“We’ll see how it all works out,” he said. “I think it will work out.”
But Trump reflected on the “law” he has fallen victim to, saying it “was an attack on the Republican Party.”
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“This was an attack on the Republican candidate who had just won an election in record numbers — the highest number of Republican votes ever won, and we won every swing state, we won the popular vote of millions of people “, he said. . “They tried to prevent this from happening, they tried to prevent this election from happening or to bleed somebody so badly that they couldn’t win.”
Trump said “the people got it and we won by the biggest numbers.”
Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor , From left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The Supreme Court has ended nearly 50-year-old constitutional protections against abortion (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
Trump filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to try to prevent the Jan. 10 ruling, expected by Judge Juan Merchan, from happening.
“The suspension request presented to Judge Sotomayor and referred to the Court by her has been denied for, among other thingsthe following reasons. First, the alleged evidentiary violations in President-elect Trump’s trial in state courts may be addressed in the ordinary course of appeal,” the order states.
“Second, the burden the ruling will place on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose an unconditional recusal after a brief virtual hearing.” the court ruled.
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The order also noted that “Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh would accept the request.”
Trump needed five votes to grant his request. The order memo suggests that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson.
From left to right: Judge Juan Merchan, former President Donald Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Getty Images, AP Images)
Trump’s sentencing is now expected to move forward, with the president-elect expected to appear virtually for the proceedings, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday.
Merchan set Trump’s New York sentencing against Trump for Jan. 10 after a jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree, as a result of the now-president-elect. Manhattan District Attorney The research of Alvin Bragg. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges and has appealed the sentence, but it was thrown out by Merchan last week.
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Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20.
Trump has maintained his innocence in the case and has repeatedly criticized it as an example of a “law” pushed by Democrats in an effort to hurt their election efforts before November.
