13 January 2025 - Trump gets "no-penalty" sentence in hush money case
Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it ‘despicable’
Mickael R. Sisak, Jennifer Pelts, Jake Offenhartz and Michelle L. Price (AP News, 10/01/2025)
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.
Trump Gets ‘Unconditional Discharge’ at Sentencing in Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case
Gene Maddaus (Variety, 10/01/2025)
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in the Story Daniels hush money case, with Judge Juan Merchan ordering an “unconditional discharge” on 34 felony counts.
Donald Trump says he's 'totally innocent' and thanks judge moments before no-penalty sentence in hush money case
(Sky News, 10/01/2025)
Donald Trump has been handed a no-penalty sentence following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None
Moira Donegan (The Guardian, 11/01/2025)
What kind of a sentence, exactly, is an “unconditional discharge”? When Judge Juan Merchan, of New York, issued the sentence on Friday, he declared that Donald Trump, convicted in his courtroom of 34 felonies, will face no jail time, no probation and no fine for falsifying business records in order to conceal an affair he had with the adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election.
Donald Trump official portrait. : Source: Wikipedia, Public Domain.
