President-elect Trump Sentenced Without Penalty in New York Hush Money Case

US President-elect Donald Trump was handed a condemnation without punishment connected Friday aft being recovered blameworthy successful his New York hush wealth case, positioning him to go the archetypal American president inaugurated arsenic a convicted felon connected January 20.

Trump participated virtually successful the tribunal proceedings, expressing outrage astatine what helium considered an unfair process. This came hours aft the Supreme Court denied his effort to debar sentencing.

"I americium wholly innocent. I did thing wrong," Trump insisted, contempt being nether a gag bid related to the case. "This has been a governmental witch hunt," helium continued, alleging that the purpose was to harm his estimation up of past fall’s statesmanlike election, which helium won.

While Trump faced a imaginable condemnation of up to 4 years successful prison, Judge Juan Merchan issued an unconditional discharge for the 34 counts of falsifying concern records tied to $130,000 successful hush wealth payments to big movie histrion Stormy Daniels. These payments were made to forestall Daniels' claims of a 2006 matter with Trump from surfacing during the 2016 statesmanlike election.

The peculiar conditions of the unconditional discharge mean that Trump volition not service situation clip nor incur monetary penalties.

"At this time, I enforce that condemnation to screen each 34 counts," stated Merchan, who extended good wishes to Trump for his upcoming word successful the White House. "Never earlier has this tribunal seen specified a unsocial and singular acceptable of circumstances," helium noted. "This has been a genuinely bonzer case."

Trump criticized the proceedings arsenic a "setback for New York,” with his ineligible squad readying to entreaty the sentence. "This has been a precise unspeakable experience," helium remarked during the virtual hearing, accusing New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg of mishandling the case.