U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Brendan McDermid via AP, Pool)

NEW YORK (TNND) — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning in New York for his conviction on 34 felony charges in his hush money case after the Supreme Court refused to block the sentencing, making him the first U.S. president to be convicted and sentenced for a crime to take office.

Trump could have been sentenced of up to four years in prison but instead was delivered a sentence that does not include penalties like jail time or probation in what’s called an unconditional discharge. Prosecutors did not oppose the judge’s decision, which means Trump will not serve any jail time, probation or pay any fines for a conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a case that made him the first former or current president to be convicted of a felony.

“Never before has this court been presented with such a unique and remarkable set of circumstances,” said the judge overseeing the case, Juan M. Merchan. “This has been truly an extraordinary case.” Read more below