NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. 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, Florida, home, received no punishment Friday for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The charges related to payments Trump's company made to a lawyer, Michael …

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Excerpts from President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing

President-elect Donald Trump talked for six minutes at the sentencing in his New York hush money case. The judge, a prosecutor and a defense lawyer also spoke. Trump appeared by

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President-elect Donald Trump appeared remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan. Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Pool 
United States President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge has ruled, but said Trump's inauguration on January 20 would not erase the jury verdict.

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NEW YORK, Jan 11 — US President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday but said Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration would not erase the jury verdict. Justice Juan Merchan’s sentencing of Trump, 78, to unconditional discharge places a judgment of guilt on his record and closes a case that had loomed over Trump’s bid to retake th…

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Judge in Trump’s hush money trial sentences US president-elect to… nothing

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. 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, Florida, home, received no punishment Friday for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The charges related to payments Trump’s company made to a lawyer, Michael …

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President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court sentencing of a former or future president took little more than half an hour.

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The case was the only one of four criminal indictments that has gone to trial and possibly the only one that ever will.

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Judge sentences Trump in hush money case, no punishment given

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. 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, Florida, home, received no punishment Friday for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The charges related to payments Trump’s company made to a lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimbu…

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