and effectively no punishment except that he retains his felony conviction. For many in the criminal justice reform and abolitionist space, his feather-light sentence further highlights the ...

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Merchan said that, if Donald Trump had been a regular citizen, a regular defendant, that he would have likely have faced much harsher punishment for those crimes. But because Donald Trump is about ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced in his New York hush money case, but Manhattan Judge Juan M ...

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The reason was practical. Merchan and Bragg would have been happy to send Trump to jail, but the fact that in 10 days the defendant will become president of the United States put Merchan and the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction but frees him to ...

President-elect Trump was spared any punishment for his hush money criminal conviction Friday when a New York judge sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, eschewing jail time while securing ...

The judge went on to suggest that Trump would likely have faced a harsher punishment had he not been elected, saying, “Donald Trump, the ordinary citizen, Donald Trump, the criminal defendant ...

By The Associated Press 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 ...

Donald Trump has been sentenced for covering up a payment to a porn star, but avoided a legal penalty. Judge Juan Merchan said he imposed the "unconditional discharge" because the constitution ...

“The accused regrets his actions, as on the day of the incident, he only intended to discipline his son, who has sensitive skin and eczema ... According to the facts of the case, the accused scolded ...