Trump tries again to get Friday’s hush money sentencing called off

President-elect Donald Trump is trying again to delay sentencing in his hush money case (Evan Vucci/AP)

US President-elect Donald Trump tried again on Tuesday to delay this week’s sentencing in his hush money case, asking a New York appeals court to intervene as he fights to avoid the finality of his conviction before he returns to the White House.

Mr Trump turned to the Appellate Division of the state’s trial court a day after the trial judge, Judge Juan M Merchan, rebuffed his bid to indefinitely postpone sentencing and ordered it to go ahead as scheduled on Friday.