Judge in Trump ‘hush money’ trial considers tossing felony conviction

The Manhattan judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial is expected to announce next week whether the president-elect’s historic felony conviction will still stand.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had already delayed the sentencing by more than four months after the election — giving himself until next Tuesday to decide whether to throw out the verdict.

Trump’s landslide election victory will further embolden his legal team “to make sure the sentencing never happens,” CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid noted late Wednesday.

“Here they will argue to the judge that the sentencing should never happen because now that Trump is elected president,” Reid noted.

“They will say he is entitled to the same constitutional protections as a sitting president and should be protected from state actors and, in this case, state prosecutors.”

Trump, 78, faces up to four years in prison after being convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Legal experts have already predicted that Trump will face no hard time.

“Merchan does not have the stomach to imprison a former president or president-elect,” said former prosecutor Neama Rahmani.

“Now that Trump has won, his criminal problems are going away.”