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Rhiannon12866

(225,879 posts) Fri Jan 10, 2025, 09:08 AM Friday

Trump hush money case LIVE: At New York court as the President-elect faces sentencing - AP [View all]

AP is live outside a court in New York as President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing for his New York hush money/election interference conviction after the nation's highest court refused to intervene.

With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge. - 01/10/2025.

Follow live updates here: https://bit.ly/4gKNBv5

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Trump hush money case LIVE: At New York court as the President-elect faces sentencing - AP [View all] Rhiannon12866 Friday OP

Make him serve food at the homeless shelter every weekend for four years. TexasTowelie Friday #1

He's about to receive yet another asterisk next to his name... Drum Friday #2

Thanks riversedge Friday #3

Will Trump be in the courtroom? No. He is expected to appear by video from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. riversedge Friday #4

Right. He's expected to appear "virtually," but the audio of his apppearance is expected to be available afterwards Rhiannon12866 Friday #5

Are they going to have his swearing in johnnyfins Friday #12

signs Outside the courtroom: riversedge Friday #6

I literally just popped over to AP and saw they had the video BumRushDaShow Friday #7

30 sec ago Trump appears in court via a video feed He's wearing a red tie with white or gold thin riversedge Friday #8

36 sec ago Judge Juan M. Merchan has entered the courtroom and is on the bench riversedge Friday #9

Trump attorney Emil Bove says Trump is appearing via Teams riversedge Friday #10

"All rise." Justice Merchan takes the bench, and he addresses Trump's attorney Todd Blanche, riversedge Friday #11

59 sec ago: Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass begins speaking on behalf of the prosecution riversedge Friday #13

7 sec ago Trump speaks in court: "This has been a very terrible experience. I think it has been a t riversedge Friday #14

28 sec ago Addressing the court, Trump says there was no crime "It's been a political witch hunt," .... riversedge Friday #15

18 sec ago Trump says: 'I'm totally innocent. I did nothing wrong' He argued that voters saw what riversedge Friday #16

20 sec ago Judge Merchan begins speaking Merchan says a judge must consider the facts of the case riversedge Friday #17

Justice Merchan: People v. Trump may have been a "truly extraordinary case," but it was ordinary in other respects. "J riversedge Friday #18

Thanks so much! Rhiannon12866 Friday #21

Trump says his former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen was listened to like he was George Washington and Cohen is not Ge riversedge Friday #19

Judge Merchan says that it is the office of the president that matters, not the occupant of that office. riversedge Friday #20

24 sec ago JUST IN: Judge sentences Donald Trump in hush money case but declines to impose any punishment ahead of his riversedge Friday #22

Trump's sentence of an unconditional discharge caps a norm-smashing case that saw the former and future president charge riversedge Friday #24

@AaronParnas: Donald Trump is officially a convicted felon. That's the tweet. 9:13 AM · Jan 10, 2025 riversedge Friday #23

59 sec ago" As Judge Merchan delivered the sentence Trump sat upright, lips pursed, frowning slightly. He tilted his he riversedge Friday #25

25 sec ago Trump calls the sentencing a 'despicable event' on Truth Social By RUTH BROWN "Today's event was a despicab riversedge Friday #26