Oluchi Chibuzor with agency report
President-elect Donald Trump yesterday became the first-ever former or sitting United States president to be formally convicted of a felony as he was sentenced in his hush money criminal case—but the president-elect was not given any penalties for his crimes.
Judge Juan Merchan gave Trump an “unconditional discharge”—meaning his conviction stands, but he won’t face any penalties—after Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, letting the president-elect walk free without any punishments.
Forbes reported that the sentence fell far short of the maximum penalties that Trump could have faced, as each of his 34 counts was punishable by up to four years in prison and/or a maximum $5,000 fine—meaning the harshest sentence could have seen Trump imprisoned for the rest of his life, though that was always unlikely to happen.
Trump attended the sentencing virtually and continued…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
