On Friday, a New York judge imposed a sentence that ensures Donald Trump will be the first convicted felon to enter the White House when he is sworn in as president on Jan. 20. It was a brief and rela

A defiant Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment for covering up hush money paid to a porn star, cementing his status as a felon on the cusp of his return to the White House.Justice Juan Merchan,

Friday’s punishment was largely symbolic, but it ensured that Donald J. Trump would become America’s first felon president.

The US president-elect was convicted for falsifying business records relating to a payment made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

The criminal case brought against Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg began trial proceedings last April. After juggling courtroom visits in multiple legal cases with campaign rallies, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts against him by a New York jury on May 30, 2024.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in relation to his Manhattan hush money case, cementing his legacy as America’s first convicted felon to assume the presidency.

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. In the end, the first criminal court sentencing of a former or future president took little more than half an hour. Trump, appearing by video from his Palm Beach,

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.