President-elect Donald Trump's camp Tuesday said the openness from the Manhattan District Attorney's office to freeze his business records case until after he's out of the White House is a win for him and his supporters.
"This is a total and definitive victory for President Trump and the American People who elected him in a landslide," Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, said in a statement to Newsmax. "The Manhattan DA has conceded that this Witch Hunt cannot continue. The lawless case is now stayed, and President Trump's legal team is moving to get it dismissed once and for all."
The New York prosecutors said they will oppose any efforts to drop Trump's business records conviction, considering the case has already been tried and decided.
But with his sentencing date looming for next week, the office said that "given the need to balance competing constitutional interests … consideration must be given" to potentially freezing the case until he leaves office.
Judge Juan Merchan had given prosecutors a deadline as of Tuesday to comment on how to proceed with the case, with Trump's sentencing scheduled for Nov. 26.
They said in their letter that they are "mindful" that the presidency carries several demands and obligations and that Trump's return to the White House will bring "unprecedented legal questions."
Last week, Merchan halted proceedings after attorneys for the president-elect called on him to dismiss the case to "avoid unconstitutional impediments" to his ability to run the country.
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