Trump Now Only Convicted Former, Future US President

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced on Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction but frees him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

- Associated Press

NEW YORK:

Trump's sentence of an unconditional discharge caps a norm-smashing case that saw the former and future president charged with 34 felonies, put on trial for almost two months and convicted by a jury on every count. Yet, the legal detour—and sordid details aired in court of a plot to bury affair allegations—didn't hurt him with voters, who elected him to a second term.