President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced in his New York hush money case just before his inauguration, becoming the only past and future U.S. president with a criminal record. Trump was convicted of 34 felonies for falsifying invoices and checks to reimburse his lawyer $130,000 for paying off a porn star before the 2016 election. Despite Trump’s claims of innocence, the judge handed him an unconditional discharge, marking his record right before taking office as the 47th president.
Following an eleventh-hour attempt to halt the sentencing, which was denied by the Supreme Court, Trump criticized the sentence as a “scam” and vowed to appeal. This legal battle is just one of the several Trump is facing, including a court order to block the release of a special counsel’s report on federal criminal charges against him.
The sentencing, lasting less than 30 minutes, was a brief interruption in Trump’s preparations for his second term in office. Despite this setback, Trump remains defiant and intends to continue fighting his legal battles in New York.
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