Judge Rejects Trump’s Effort To Halt Sentencing In NY Hush Money Case [Video]

UPDATE: A New York judge rejected Donald Trump‘s effort to stop his sentencing this week for his criminal conviction in the hush money case.

Earlier today, Trump’s legal team claimed that the proceedings were “automatically stayed” as they pursued an appeal in the case.

Judge Juan Merchan, though, wrote that Trump claims were “a repetition of arguments he has raised numerous times in the past.”

Last week, Merchan scheduled Trump’s sentencing for Friday, ten days before the inauguration.

Trump was convicted last year of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election. Trump has denied the claims, but Merchan has rejected his arguments to dismiss the conviction.

PREVIOUSLY: Donald Trump is seeking to sideline Friday’s planned sentencing following his conviction in the New York hush money trial last year.

In a ruling last week, Judge Juan Merchan ordered Trump to be sentenced, …