NEW YORK, November 23. /TASS/. Communications Director in the transition team Steven Cheung has announced that the case against US President-elect Donald Trump heard by a court in New York has been discontinued and sentencing adjourned.

"In a decisive win for President Trump, the hoax Manhattan Case is now fully stayed and sentencing is adjourned. President Trump won a landslide victory as the American People have issued a mandate to return him to office and dispose of all remnants of the Witch Hunt cases. All of the sham lawfare attacks against President Trump are now destroyed and we are focused on Making America Great Again," Cheung said.

In May, New York jurors found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a hush money scheme. He became the first former US president to be convicted of a felony by a jury.

The investigation against Trump was prompted by The Wall Street Journal publication in January 2018, claiming that a month before the 2016 presidential election, his lawyer Michael Cohen had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump some ten years ago.

In 2018, Cohen stood trial on several counts, including violating campaign financing laws by paying Daniels. Back then, no charges were brought against Trump, who enjoyed immunity as the head of state. However, in November 2022, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office launched a new probe. Investigators believe that Trump reimbursed his lawyer for the money he had spent via Trump Organization as payment for court fees. On April 4, 2023, a court in New York brought criminal charges against Trump in the case of payments to Daniels.