Trump Sentenced With No Penalties, Jail Time in NY Business Records Case

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Judge Merchan gave Trump an unconditional discharge, which means that no penalties were imposed.

NEW YORK CITYโ€”New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Jan. 10 gave President-elect Donald Trump an unconditional discharge in his sentencing in the business records case.

Itโ€™s a largely symbolic sentence that means that Trump does not face any penalties beyond having a conviction entered in his legal record. Merchan declined to impose any term of imprisonment or fines.

โ€œIt is the legal protections afforded to the office of the president of the United States that are extraordinary, not the occupant,โ€ Merchan said as Trump listened during a virtual appearance.

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass described Trumpโ€™s conduct throughout the case as a โ€œdirect attack on the rule of law itself.โ€ He chastised Trump, suggesting the president-elect has made threats of retaliation against those who wronged him in legal matters.

When the state said that Trump sought to influence the election by unlawful means, Trump shook his head. The stateโ€™s statement focused on how Trump had expressed disdain for institutions and how he has been unrelenting in unsubstantiated attacks and argued that the president-electโ€™s threats were designed to have a chilling effect.

Still, Steinglass said an unconditional discharge is the โ€œmost practical sentence prior to his inauguration.โ€

Trump and his attorney Todd Blancheโ€”whom he nominated as deputy attorney generalโ€”were on screen from Florida during the hearing. Trump was sporting a suit jacket and a red-striped tie. Behind them were two American flags.

While the defense also favored a sentence of unconditional discharge, Blanche rebutted the prosecution.

โ€œI very, very much disagree with much of what the government just said about this case, about the legitimacy of what happened in this courtroom during this trial, and about President Trumpโ€™s conduct fighting this case,โ€ he said.

Blanche said his team would appeal and that it wasnโ€™t the appropriate time to bring the case, describing the proceedings as a sad day for the country.

Trump, appearing virtually via Teams, spoke next.

โ€œThis has been a very terrible experience. I think it has been a tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system,โ€ he said, describing the case as a โ€œpolitical witch hunt.โ€

Trump argued that he was not involved with the records that triggered the case, that the payment was a legal expense, and that his business labeled it that way.

โ€œIโ€™m totally innocent. I did nothing wrong,โ€ Trump said. โ€œIt was done to damage my reputation so that I would lose the election, and obviously, that didnโ€™t work.โ€

He called the case a โ€œweaponizationโ€ of government.

Byย Sam Dormanย andย Jacob Burg

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President -elect Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social About Sentencing

The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE. That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED. The real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History. As the American People have seen, this โ€œcaseโ€ had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference. Todayโ€™s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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