NEW YORK—Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday (Saturday in Manila) for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect’s
NEW YORK—Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect’s last-ditch efforts to frustrate a process that would make him the first felon in the White House.
Daniels gave toe-curling testimony that included details about her sexual encounter with Trump—which he has always denied—as well as his flirting and interest in the adult film industry.Trump had made an eleventh-hour plea for a suspension of the criminal proceedings to the nation’s highest court after a New York State appeals court dismissed his effort to have the hearing delayed, and the state’s top court declined to act on the request.
Instead, experts expect Trump will receive an unconditional discharge, a measure without any sanctions or restriction that nonetheless upholds the jury’s guilty verdict — and Trump’s infamy as the first former president to be convicted of a felony.“He’s sticking his middle finger at the judge, the jury, the system of justice, and laughing,” said Pace University law professor and former prosecutor Bennett Gershman.
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