Trump Seeks to Delay Hush Money Sentencing Until After Election

Donald Trump asked a New York judge to delay sentencing in his hush-money criminal case until after the November presidential election, arguing that going ahead with the hearing before voters go to the polls would advance “naked election-interference objectives.”

The former president made the request in a letter Wednesday to Justice Juan Merchan in Manhattan, who is scheduled to sentence Trump on Sept. 18. Trump faces as long as four years behind bars after becoming the first former president convicted of a crime, though a far shorter term is also possible.

There “is no valid countervailing reason for the court ...