If the conviction stays, Trump would be a felon to serve as president of the United States.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Manhattan District Attorney's Office of New York City on Tuesday agreed to further postpone U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case, according to media reports.
In a letter to a judge in charge of the case, the district attorney's office said Trump is not likely to be sentenced until after the end of his upcoming four-year presidential term which starts on Jan. 20, 2025.
However, Manhattan prosecutors rebuffed Trump's request to dismiss his criminal conviction in May.
If the conviction stays, Trump would be a felon to serve as president of the United States.
Trump is expected to continue to push for a dismissal of the conviction.
"This is a total and definitive victory for President Trump and the American People who elected him in a landslide," said Steven Cheung, spokesman for Trump, in a statement.
Trump's legal team is moving to get the case dismissed once and for all, said Cheung.
New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday called off the sentencing of Trump in the hush money cash, which was scheduled on Nov. 26, according to Bloomberg citing a short note by the court.
On May 30, a jury in New York found Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a bid to hide hush money payments to a porn star in 2016 but the date of sentencing has been postponed multiple times. ■