(PatriotPostNews.com) – Former president and leading GOP candidate Donald Trump could miss his son’s high school graduation due to an ongoing trial.
Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case accusing Trump of paying off a pornography actress to keep an affair quiet, has said that he will not immediately decide whether the defendant will be able to miss the trial on the day of his son Barron’s graduation, which will be in Florida on May 17.
The lack of final say in the request came on Monday April 15, when the jury selection process began in a Manhattan court. The case involves actress Stormy Daniels, who had a romantic fling with Trump nearly 20 years ago and is alleged to have been paid by the former president’s attorney to keep it a secret ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Trump faces 34 counts of criminal felonies related to the scandal, first brought in an indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2023. The controversial Republican is about to become the first former president to stand in a criminal trial.
Following the news that he may be kept from his son’s Palm Beach graduation ceremony from Oxbridge Academy, however, conservatives and Trump supporters rushed to the politician’s defense, demanding that he be permitted to join his wife and son on that day.
Merchan has said that he will decide on the issue closer to the date in question, citing that his response depends on where the trial stands at that time. Trump blasted the response, once again brushing off the charges against him, to all of which he has pleaded not guilty and claimed are being used as election interference as he runs for a second term in the White House.
Media personality Piers Morgan and Fox News writer Sara Carter are among many conservatives who have voiced their opinion that Trump should go to the graduation ceremony with or without the approval from Merchan.
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