Trump Sentenced to Unconditional Discharge in New York Hush Money Case
Trump won’t face punishment, but will be labeled a felon.
Judge Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to unconditional discharge.
In New York, an unconditional discharge means the court found someone committed the crime but thinks a punishment doesn’t serve a purpose.
That means Trump won’t serve prison time, fine, or probation supervision.
The sentencing means Trump is a felon. None of us are stupid. We all know the whole point of this circus was to slap Trump with the felon label.
Judge sentences Trump to an 'unconditional discharge'
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 10, 2025
A jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to pay off Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Judge Juan Merchan refused to throw out the guilty verdict, scheduling the sentencing for January 10, ten days before the inauguration.
However, Merchan hinted that Trump won’t face any punishment.
Merchan said it’s “proper at this juncture” to inform everyone that it’s the “Court’s inclination to not impose any sentence of incarceration, a sentence authorized by the conviction but one the People concede they no longer view as a practicable recommendation.”
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*clears throat*
CONVICTED FELON 47!!!
Alright, ten more days to the inaugural. Suck it, Left-wing and NeverTrump w(hore)ds!🤣🤣🤣
Retribution can’t happen soon enough
Retribution will not ever happen.
They have called him a felon from the first indictment.
Who cares what they call him. I would like to think that this will be overturned on appeal since it had so many irregularities in just the jury instructions much less the other conduct of the judge and prosecutors.
They act as if this matters. An NYC jury would have convicted Trump of anything.
Trump could have been charged with the murder of someone still alive, had that person come and testify that they were still alive, and the jury would still have convicted him of murder.
The conviction will be thrown out on appeal. The case consisted of a number of steps, each of which individually, appeared mechanistically correct, but when viewed as a whole were obviously cobbled together with the sole view of punishing one man under the pretext of a concocted, nonexistent crime.
Thrown out by which court? The NY appeals court have already shown us what they are about as has Roberts and ACB
TY Mary
I get it. I don’t like it. But 47 will make it work to his advantage. Yugely. Mugshot x 1000000.
“We all know the whole point of this circus was to slap Trump with the felon label.“
No, that was the fallback purpose of the charade, amended post election. The intended purpose was to prevent Trump from returning to the White House. Just like after the assassination attempt, he’s emerged bruised and bloodied but resilient and victorious. As the saying goes, they won the battle, but he won the war.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant the sentencing.
I know. But we mustn’t lose sight of the big picture. Trump being labeled a “felon” is a mere table scrap compared to their intended purpose. Of course, they will milk it for all it’s worth. On Inauguration Day the MSM pundits will repeatedly point out that Trump is the first convicted felon to be inaugurated President. A small victory indeed before Trump walks triumphantly back into the Oval Office and starts signing EO’s.
Who cares. Trump will wear it like a badge till he tears it off and shoves it down their putrid mouth holes
Some related observations. Eventually this will be overturned on appeal and the “Scarlet Letter” will go away. However, absent this lawfare, I believe that the Republicans might have gotten a few less votes in November and lost control of the House. That has permanent effect. Finally, when the appeals overturn the conviction, it might be just in time for the mid-terms and help Republicans yet again.
What a farce.
Think about all the resources spent, but most importantly, all the damage done to the integrity of the justice system, all to put a label on their political rival.
It is disgusting at a banana-republic level.
We can thank Amy Coney Barrett for being the swing vote who could have stopped this circus in it’s tracks, but instead sided with those who opinion she valued most: Sotomayor, Kagan and Brown Jackson.
I’m still waiting to hear just what book entry other than “legal expense” a payment to your lawyer should be? Have either Bragg or Merchan ever explained?
My understanding is that one aspect of being a convicted felon is that you typically lose your civil rights until the conviction is either overturned on appeal, you are pardoned, or you go through a special process to have your rights restored. These typically include the right to own a firearm and the right to vote. I’m certainly not a lawyer, nor am I pretty enough to play one on TV, but is there anybody out there who IS a lawyer who can tell us (with some degree of accuracy) how this might affect his performance as president? At least until it’s overturned?
I wonder if the Dems are stupid enough to screech about a convicted felon being in charge of the biggest firearms the country has, i.e. nuclear weapons.
Paging Jamie Raskin…
Not a lawyer, but the Constitution states the qualifications for president, and being a felon does not disqualify someone for the office. No statute can overrule the Constitution, so DJT remains qualified to be POTUS.
Based on the evidence, I would say that the judge is the one who’s guilty and Trump is the one who’s innocent.
As a result, justice is turned upside down and the lady with scales is standing on her head and the scales are in the trash.
Yes but judges never face consequences for any of their misinterpretations of law,..look at how many time the 9th has been over turned and they all get to retire with full pensions
“Je suis felon”…… to the Left we all are felons. Wear it well.
Higher New York courts would do well to throw out this conviction lest they damage their reputation even further.
Ha! It’s obvious that the courts, Engoron, Merchan and Kaplan don’t care about appearances, its all about getting Trump
We all know Trump’s great unforgivable felony crime:
He is not Hillary Clinton.
Yes. In 2016, Trump dealt the Left a narcissistic injury they will never recover from and howl to this very day over.
Time to by one of those TShirts that say I voted for a Felon.
I sure hope Trump just lets his legal team hand this. This is one of those things that they like to play against Trump.
His best response should be “So What”
I believe there is an entire year of rubbing this in their faces… just like with the mug shot.
God bless President Trump and keep him and his family safe. Amen
Trump must be the most investigated person in the history of the US. The federal DOJ and multiple states have gone after him. Yet NY (the most corrupt state in the US) and the feds had to manufacture a case because they found nothing substantive. Dershowitz has said many times on his podcast that he has never seen a worse miscarriage of justice in his entire 60 year legal career. This from a long-time liberal Democrat who admits he voted against Trump, at least in 2016.
I suspect that many foreigners would not want to invest in anything in this country because its legal system has shown itself to be corrupt from top to bottom. The US Supreme Court could have stopped this charade years ago and didn’t. Right up to the last minute. The highest court itself is a joke. One of the members can’t define a woman. Another lacks even elementary legal knowledge. Do some of them think the sun revolves around the earth?
What is to be done after Trump takes office? He must give as he got. Otherwise he will appear toothless. No forgive and forget. No mister nice guy. Otherwise our enemies will consider us weak. Trump must resist the advice he will get to act like the typical Republican– spineless. Trump must not hold back, and go after his enemies, both foreign and domestic, with resolve and aggression.
I honestly believe that the Lawfare attacks backfired on the Democrats. They apparently hoped that the Red/Religious Base wouldn’t support a Felon. However, I know that the whole affair for me, at least, FORCED me to vote for Trump.
To do otherwise would be to accept the full descent of America into a Banana Republic, where the party in power can do armed raids on the homes of their political opponents and jail them on “Trumped” up charges.
I was horrified to tears….but more than tears…,action!
Outlaw President.
I love it.
The most famous American outlaws:
Jesse James
Billy The Kid
Donald J. Trump
I was thinking of the tyranny fighting type of outlaws…
George Washington.
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
and other men who could read cursive.
etc
All the way back to 2016. That’s why we voted for him.
When an act is of such little concern to the safety and well-being of a community, what purpose is served by it’s being a crime in the first place? Maybe our courts, before trial, should review the circumstances and impact of the alleged crime, and toss any charges that, even if true, couldn’t have, or didn’t, have a negative impact on the public. Such a process would serve justice better than consuming public resources (and the court’s time) to no actual purpose.
“He can’t keep getting away with it!“
Consider how this looks to the average adult around the world.
Imho it will confirm beyond any shadow of any doubt that any judicial process in any jurisdiction can be completely corrupted — regardless of any reputation, regardless of any constitution, regardless of any declaration of any independence, regardless of any self-righteous bloviating by self-righteous bloviators in robes, in uniforms, on tv, in courtrooms, at the UN, at the EU, etc, etc.
“If this can be done to Donald Trump, in New York, NY, anything can be done to anyone, anywhere.”
And who knows, perhaps in the end that will be a good thing….
The Communists have been calling Trump a felon for some time now. How did that work out last November?
The politically astute thing for the Communists to do would have been to dismiss the charges. The public has the attention span of a toddler, and soon would have forgotten the lawfare against Trump that backfired. Now Trump can remind everyone about this kangaroo court conviction every time the Communists try to block his agenda. Talk about a gift that will keep on giving!
A famous “Scarlet Letter” for history to judge the Democrats by. I am so glad that Trump loves America so much.
Other comments have touched on this issue indirectly: felons can not neither have guns nor be around guns. Will NY go after him for having USSS security detail?
Another sidebar: everyone associated with him will have to report on their security forms that they associate with a known felon — or else DOJ or NY will go after them, also?
What will this do to HIS security clearance? A waiver – no doubt – but …
this could open a legal can of worms by setting a precedent to waiver felony convictions for security clearances?
The circus continues.
Oh bother.
There is a book titled “Three Felonies a Day”, in which the authors argue that there are so many obscure federal laws, and regulations which have the force of law, that the average American unknowingly commits three felonies every day. What they did to Trump, they can do to any one of us.
It’s enough to make Carter roll over in the rotunda.
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