OAN Staff Sophia Flores
7:12am – Friday, January 10, 2025
Judge Juan Marchand sentenced Donald Trump to unconditional release. This means the president-elect does not have to take any action, but the conviction will remain on his record.
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The president-elect was sentenced Friday after a New York jury found him guilty in May of 34 felony counts of “falsifying business records” to conceal payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels.
President Trump repeatedly maintained his innocence throughout the trial and characterized the case as a “weaponization of our justice system.”
“The fact is, I'm completely innocent. I did nothing wrong,” he said Friday.
Trump chose to appear virtually instead of appearing in person for his sentencing at Mar-a-Lago. He joined the flow, sitting next to attorney Todd Blanche.
Trump spoke about the incident during his sentencing hearing and insisted that his accountant record the legal costs.
“The attorney's fees were recorded as litigation costs by the accountants. They were not brought down by me. They did not call it construction, concrete work,” Trump said. “They call legal costs legal costs, and I was indicted for that. It's actually unbelievable.”
He went on to call out disgraced former lawyer Michael Cohen.
“He's been allowed to talk like he's George Washington, but he's not George Washington,” the Republican said.
January 10th of this yearth The sentencing came after Trump's lawyers asked the state appellate court to reverse Judge Marchand's decision to schedule sentencing. After that failed, Trump's lawyers asked the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to suspend the hearing. In a 5-4 vote, SCOTUS rejected his request.
Trump's sentencing was originally scheduled for July 11.th However, I was late three times.
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