U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing

in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which

he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star,

at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Brendan McDermid via AP, Pool)

NEW YORK (TNND) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning in

New York for his conviction on 34 felony charges in his hush money case after

the Supreme Court refused to block the sentencing, making him the first U.S.

president to be convicted and sentenced for a crime to take office.

Trump could have been sentenced of up to four years in prison but instead was

delivered a sentence that does not include penalties like jail time or probation

in what’s called an unconditional discharge. Prosecutors did not oppose the judge’s

decision, which means Trump will not serve any jail time, probation or pay any fines

for a conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a case that made

him the first former or current president to be convicted of a felony.

“Never before has this court been presented with such a unique and remarkable

set of circumstances,” said the judge overseeing the case, Juan M. Merchan.

“This has been truly an extraordinary case.”