The judge declined to impose any punishment, but the hearing assured that Trump will become the first US president to be convicted of a felony.
President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced on Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment.
“It’s been a political witch hunt. It was done to damage my reputation so that I would lose the election, and obviously, that didn’t work,” Trump said. As he appeared from his Florida home, the former president was seated with his lawyer Todd Blanche, whom he’s tapped to serve as the second-highest ranking Justice Department official in his incoming administration.
“I never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge,” the Republican president-elect wrote on his Truth Social platform last week. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office brought the charges, is a Democrat. “There was nothing else it could have been called,” he wrote on Truth Social last week, adding, “I was hiding nothing.”
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