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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump avoids jail in hush money sentence but is set to be first felon president

Donald Trump will return to the White House as the first-ever criminally convicted president after his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom, where the judge presiding over his criminal hush money trial declined to send him to jail but preserved the jury’s historic verdict against the president-elect.

New York Justice Juan Merchan told the former president on January 10 that “the only lawful sentence” remaining for his crimes is that of an “unconditional discharge.”

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