On Friday, New York Judge Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump, making him the first felon to become President.
Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge, which eschews any prison time or probation but cements his status as a convicted felon.
“After careful analysis and obedience of government mandates, pursuant of law, the court feels the only sentence is an unconditional discharge, which is a lawful and permissible sentence for falsifying business records,” Merchan said.
“I impose that sentence for all 34 counts, and sir, I wish you godspeed as you pursue your second term in office,” he said.
Trump, in remarks virtually to the judge inside the courtroom, said that his experience throughout his criminal case in Manhattan has been “very terrible,” calling it a “tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system.”
“He said I was falsifying business records; I was calling a legal expense a legal expense,” Trump said, reiterating a defense argument from trial.
“It’s an injustice of justice,” he added.
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan case in May 2024.
Friday’s sentencing comes after multiple efforts to appeal the decision. On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s final effort to stay sentencing proceedings.
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This only highlights the corruption of the NY judicial system . They take a possible misdemeanor and twist it into 34 felonies. Is that the way each of us wants to be treated because we claimed something on our taxes that the IRS didn’t agree with? Fact is we would not be charged. At the most we would unjustly have to pay a penalty. I don’t have to say it because everyone knows this was strictly a political hit. SHAME ON OUR NATION. The Democrats should remember that often what comes around goes around.