Hush money case was brought to defeat me, it didn't work: Trump

RESPONDING to his sentencing on Friday in the hush money case, US-president elect Donald Trump, briefly addressing the court as he appeared virtually from his Florida home, said his criminal trial and conviction has "been a very terrible experience" and insisted he committed no crime.

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The Republican former president, appearing on a video feed 10 days before his inauguration, again pilloried the case, the only one of his four criminal indictments that has gone to trial and possibly the only one that ever will. "It's been a political witch hunt. It was done to damage my reputation so that I would lose the election, and obviously, that didn't work," Trump said. Trump called the case "a weapon