Former President Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records but will not face any jail time or fines. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan imposed an unconditional discharge, citing the complexities of sentencing a future president. Prosecutors supported the no-penalty sentence but criticized Trump for his attacks on the legal system and calls for retaliation against those involved in the case.
The sentence pronounced Friday by Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan cements Trump ’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine., but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction but frees him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine. and convicted by a jury on every count.
“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. called an unconditional discharge, and prosecutors aren't opposing it. That would mean no jail time, no probation and no fines would be imposed, but nothing is final until Friday's proceeding is done.
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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