Judge delivers sentencing remarks in Donald Trump hush money case – audio

Donald Trump will avoid jail time for his felony conviction in the New York hush-money case, a judge determined on Friday, marking both a dramatic and anti-climactic development in the historic criminal proceedings just 10 days before Trump returns to the White House. The judge who presided over Trump’s criminal trial, Juan Merchan, issued a sentence of 'unconditional discharge', meaning the president-elect will be released without fine, imprisonment or probation supervision for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records Trump avoids punishment for hush-money conviction and calls case ‘terrible experience’