Trump Reacts To Hush Money Sentencing

4 hours ago President-elect Donald Trump says the sentencing hearing in his New York hush money case was a “despicable charade” and he plans to appeal his conviction. The Republican was sentenced Friday, but the judge declined to impose any punishment. The no-punishment sentence pronounced by Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan cements Trump’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine. It caps a norm-smashing case that saw Trump convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a payment to bury affair allegations that threatened to cloud his 2016 presidential run. Prosecutors chided Trump’s attacks on the legal system throughout and after the case.