Donald Trump to Be Sentenced in Business Records Case

[mystery-ak]

Donald Trump to Be Sentenced in Business Records Case

Simon Kent 10 Jan 2025

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in the business records case in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records.

New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan has confirmed sentencing for Trump – which he is expected to attend virtually.

As Breitbart News reported, 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.

But the Supreme Court ruled the sentencing could proceed.

AFP reports prosecutors opposed the effort to stave off sentencing, 10 days before Trump is due to be sworn in for a second term, arguing it was wrong for the apex court to hear the case when the 78-year-0ld still had avenues of appeal to pursue in New York.

“This Court lacks jurisdiction over a state court’s management of an ongoing criminal trial when defendant has not exhausted his state-law remedies,” the prosecution told the Supreme Court.

Trump’s attorneys called the case politically motivated, and they said sentencing would be a “grave injustice” that threatens to disrupt the presidential transition as the Republican prepares to return to the White House.

AP reports Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge, and prosecutors aren’t opposing it. That would mean no jail time, no probation and no fines would be imposed, but nothing is final until Friday’s proceeding is done.

Sentencing will begin at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/10/donald-trump-to-be-sentenced-in-business-records-case/

[mountaineer]

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
We are now 15 minutes away. One last thought about last night's decision of the Supreme Court. I never thought that the Court would stay the sentencing. However, the decision in some ways creates an ideal context for the major appeal coming from President-Elect Trump...
9:15 AM · Jan 10, 2025

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...The case will now be appealed in full and eventually escape the vortex known as the New York court system. The Court has shown that it has shown restraint and has ruled against Trump in this and other matters. The important appeal is coming...
9:17 AM · Jan 10, 2025

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...This case is a peddler's wagon of reversible errors by Merchan.  That is the appeal that Trump should most want to facilitate. Today's sentencing will allow that process to finally occur.
9:18 AM · Jan 10, 2025

[Wingnut]

I hope Turley is correct.

[mountaineer]

Live reporting:

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1877726502105612627

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

Is it this the record in question?

https://www.discogs.com/release/15387607-Donald-Trump-Keep-America-Great

[libertybele]

Donald Trump sentenced with no penalty in New York criminal trial, as judge wishes him 'Godspeed' in 2nd term
Judge Merchan wished Trump 'Godspeed' in his second term in office

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to an unconditional discharge Friday after being found guilty on charges of falsifying business records stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s years-long investigation.

The president-elect attended his sentencing virtually, after fighting to block the process all the way up to the United States Supreme Court this week. Trump sat beside his defense attorney Todd Blanche.

Judge Juan Merchan did not sentence the president-elect to prison, and instead sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, meaning there is no punishment imposed--no jail time, fines or probation. The sentence also preserves Trump's ability to appeal the conviction.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-sentenced-no-penalty-new-york-criminal-trial-judge-wishes-him-godspeed-2nd-term

[DCPatriot]

Perhaps one of our Briefer lawyers can correct me if I'm wrong...

This sets a wonderful precedent to punish Joe Biden for his crimes/kickbacks conspiring with China and Ukraine (Burisma).

...and he isn't going to get off as easy as President Trump

[libertybele]

Perhaps one of our Briefer lawyers can correct me if I'm wrong...

This sets a wonderful precedent to punish Joe Biden for his crimes/kickbacks conspiring with China and Ukraine (Burisma).

...and he isn't going to get off as easy as President Trump

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm doubtful that ole Joe and cronies will see any repercussions and keep in mind his son Hunter who possibly has the strongest ties of conspiring with Ukraine and China has already been pardoned.

[DCPatriot]

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm doubtful that ole Joe and cronies will see any repercussions and keep in mind his son Hunter who possibly has the strongest ties of conspiring with Ukraine and China has already been pardoned.

IMO, Hunter's 'pardon' is invalid and MUST be challenged on more than one level.

How can you pardon/forgive a person for crimes over a specified time period, when no charges were even brought inside a courtroom?

Had a thought that Biden would step forward out of guilt that he was being blackmailed/extorted by Barack Obama all these years ...since he was fully aware of all the shady dealings in which Biden played a role...throwing himself on the mercy of the American People.

Then I woke up when my cat jumped on my face.   

[libertybele]

IMO, Hunter's 'pardon' is invalid and MUST be challenged on more than one level.

How can you pardon/forgive a person for crimes over a specified time period, when no charges were even brought inside a courtroom?

Had a thought that Biden would step forward out of guilt that he was being blackmailed/extorted by Barack Obama all these years ...since he was fully aware of all the shady dealings in which Biden played a role...throwing himself on the mercy of the American People.

Then I woke up when my cat jumped on my face.   

   Biden nor Obama and for that matter all those who are part of that train wreck will ever be held accountable.  Never.

Interestingly, Trump sat next to Obama at Carter's funeral and they had a rather jovial exchange. 

[mystery-ak]

‘It’s Official’: Establishment Media Gloat over Donald Trump’s NY Case Conviction

Wendell Husebo 10 Jan 2025

Members of the establishment media mocked President-elect Donald Trump’s official conviction on Friday in the New York business records case.

Americans’ trust in the establishment media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” plummeted to a record low in 2024, Gallup polling found in October.
Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to unconditional release, meaning he will not face jail time or penalties.

“This has been a very terrible experience and a setback for the New York court system,” Trump told Judge Juan Merchan, appearing virtually from Mar-a-Lago.

“I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense,” he said. “I just want to say I think it’s an embarrassment to New York.”

Legal experts expect the case will likely be overturned on appeal. Trump announced he would appeal the case immediately after the conviction.

Republicans say the case was a weaponization of justice against the Democrat’s political opponent and the sentencing simply a label for Trump’s opponents to use for political purposes.

After the official conviction, members of the biased media mocked Trump.

NBC News’s Ken Dilanian announced, “Now you can call him a convicted felon.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/01/10/its-official-establishment-media-gloat-over-donald-trumps-ny-case-conviction/

[rustynail]

  Biden nor Obama and for that matter all those who are part of that train wreck will ever be held accountable.  Never.

Interestingly, Trump sat next to Obama at Carter's funeral and they had a rather jovial exchange. 

Trump knows that Obama tried to have him killed.  Obama knows that Trump knows he tried to have him killed.  Their exchange was great drama.

[libertybele]

Trump knows that Obama tried to have him killed.  Obama knows that Trump knows he tried to have him killed.  Their exchange was great drama.

So, DJT basically told him .... you missed you SOB?  I'm still waiting for Biden to give the Clinton's and the Obama's a blanket pardon.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Donald Trump sentenced with no penalty in New York criminal trial

Trump was sentenced with no articulated "underlying crime".   

[Right_in_Virginia]

‘It’s Official’: Establishment Media Gloat over Donald Trump’s NY Case Conviction

“I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense,” he said. “I just want to say I think it’s an embarrassment to New York.”

This appeal victory is going to be sweet.

[berdie]

So...can he still vote with a felony conviction?

[Wingnut]

So...can he still vote with a felony conviction?

Damn good question.

[mountaineer]

So...can he still vote with a felony conviction?

Not in NY, I've heard, but isn't FL his official residence?

[Wingnut]

Not in NY, I've heard, but isn't FL his official residence?

Yup.

[Smokin Joe]

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm doubtful that ole Joe and cronies will see any repercussions and keep in mind his son Hunter who possibly has the strongest ties of conspiring with Ukraine and China has already been pardoned.

And because he has been pardoned, can be called on to testify without fear of prosecution. The 5th no longer applies because he cannot effectively incriminate himself. Perjury, however, would be a new crime, and outside the bounds of his pardon.

[mystery-ak]

Dershowitz: Merchan Revealing Sentence in Advance ‘Was a Scam, a Ploy’

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz criticized New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan’s apparent effort to ward off the U.S. Supreme Court’s intervention in President-elect Donald Trump’s record-keeping criminal case.

Ahead of the January 10 sentencing, Merchan revealed no jail time for the incoming president would be a part of the sentence. However, Dershowitz speculated that it was intentional to “persuade” two of the high court’s justices not to take the case.

“What we saw today was a scam, a ploy,” he said. “It started with Judge Merchan telling in advance what a sentence was going to be. I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve never been told by a judge what the sentence is going to be. When I go into the courtroom with my client, I tell him to bring his toothbrush because he doesn’t know whether he’s going home or going to Rikers or some other lockup. The only reason Merchan said in advance what he was going to do is to try to persuade the two justices of the Supreme Court not to take the case now and they use that fact.”

Dershowitz added, “And they said the reason we’re not taking the case now and stopping the sentencing from going forward was because the judge said in advance that he’s not sentencing him to prison. So this was a ploy and the two justices unfortunately fell for the ploy. This is the worst thing that’s happened to the American criminal justice system since McCarthyism and the civil rights abuses back in the 1950s and the victims of the American people. Trump, yes, it was hard he said very honestly, that it was tough for him, but he prevailed, he won and the American people won because they rejected lawfare. You know, I invented that term lawfare back in the ’60s. I don’t know if I’d be proud or ashamed of it, yeah.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/01/11/dershowitz-merchan-revealing-sentence-in-advance-was-a-scam-a-ploy/