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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Trump’s scot-free sentencing is proof of special treatment throughout trials

two men appear on a television screen in a court room
Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing with his attorney Todd Blanche at court in New York on Friday. Photograph: Getty Images

At his campaign rallies last year, Donald Trump would sometimes gaze up at the heavens and wonder what his late mother and father would have thought of their son standing trial as an accused criminal.

Given that Trump’s father, Fred, was a ruthless businessman who told his sons “you are a killer” and “you are a king”, the old man was probably looking down on Friday gratified that Donald had essentially got away with it – again.

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