Appearing virtually in a New York Courtroom, he received his sentence for the 34 convictions he received last spring for the business fraud committed when he sent hush money to Stormy Daniels while he was a Presidential Candidate in 2016.
Mr. Trump will be inaugurated on January 20, 2025, as the first President to ever be a convicted felon.
He already has the dubious distinction of being the first twice impeached President to be re-elected and the one ranked dead last on his first term Oval Office performance by the nation's historians.
What a sad commentary on people's amnesia on the Trump years that they voted for a return to this.
The Judge, Juan Merchan, opted not to sentence Mr. Trump to any jail time or impose any fines. This is known in New York Judicial Circles as Unconditional Discharge which labels the defendant a felon but does not penalize him.
Personally, Judge Merchan, maybe because he feared more threats toward him and his family, wimped out.
If Trump's subordinates like Michael Cohen can receive criminal sentences for their part in this transgression, the person at the top who helped perpetrate these felonies should have received some punishment.
While jail time was obviously not feasible given Trump becoming President in the next nine days, Merchan could have imposed a multimillion-dollar fine on him, demonstrating that indeed, no one is above the law.
Trump and his lawyers are going to appeal these convictions anyway so why the Judge decided not to hand down some fine is mystifying and sends the wrong message to the American People, including those who wrongly feel Trump did nothing wrong in the first place.
Bad decisions all around.
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