On May 13, 2024, former US President Trump attended the trial for allegedly covering up hush money in the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City.
Spencer Platt | Reuters
President-elect Trump will be sentenced in a criminal hush-money case in New York on Friday morning, more than eight years after he was indicted and 10 days before he takes office for a second term in the White House.
Trump will attend the hearing remotely, and Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Melchan is expected to impose no jail time, probation and fines.
But Merchin’s actions will officially make Trump the first criminal ever to occupy the Oval Office.
The hearing comes a day after Trump and his wife Melania Trump attended the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in Washington. The Trumps sat with every other living former president.
Last May, a jury convicted Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment his then-personal attorney made to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Regarding hush money. Daniels was paid to remain silent about claims she had a sexual relationship with Trump a decade ago, which the president-elect denies.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday removed the final legal hurdle to Trump’s sentencing, rejecting his request to block proceedings in the case.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, joined fellow conservative Chief Justice John Roberts and three liberal justices in a narrow 5-4 majority A majority vote was taken.
The ruling noted that Trump’s sentence would impose a “relatively minor” burden on his presidential duties and that he would have the right to appeal charges that Murchin improperly allowed certain evidence in the trial.
Trump’s lawyers have argued that he is immune from criminal prosecution, but courts have repeatedly rejected that claim as it relates to the hush-money case because he was not president when it originally arose.
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