President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced on Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment.
The outcome cements Trump’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.Trump’s sentence of an unconditional discharge caps a norm-smashing case that saw the former and future president charged with 34 felonies, put on trial for almost two months and convicted on every count.
Trump, seated in a dark suit, appeared on a video screen in the courtroom with one of his lawyers at his side, as he called the case “a weaponisation of government” and “an embarrassment to New York.” “Legally, this case should not have been brought,” Blanche said, reiterating Trump’s intention to appeal the verdict. That technically can’t happen until he’s sentenced.
Bragg’s office said in a court filing Monday that Trump committed “serious offences that caused extensive harm to the sanctity of the electoral process and to the integrity of New York’s financial marketplace.” Trump’s lawyers tried unsuccessfully to forestall a trial. Since his May conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records, they have pulled virtually every legal lever within reach to try to get the conviction overturned, the case dismissed or at least the sentencing postponed.
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