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is expected to be sentenced at a Friday hearing with New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan , putting an end to his hush money trial more than seven months after his unprecedented conviction.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the case, argued in turn that Trump’s conviction must stand in the interest of justice. But Bragg conceded that jail time was no longer practical given Trump’s imminent return to the White House.Trump was never likely to serve a long time behind bars given he was convicted on low-level felonies and has no previous criminal record. He faced a maximum penalty of four years’ imprisonment.
Over the course of around five weeks’ worth of witness testimony, prosecutors showed the jury how Trump’s then–personal attorney, Michael Cohen, wired $130,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels because she was threatening to tell a magazine that she had sex with Trump during a Lake Tahoe golf championship in 2006.Cohen fronted the money. At the time, Trump’s campaign was teetering on collapse in the wake of the “Access Hollywood” scandal.
At the time, Cohen was still Trump’s faithful sidekick, howling curse words at anyone who did wrong by his boss. Some of the trial’s most emotional testimony came when Cohen took the stand to describe how he“My wife, my daughter, my son all said to me: ‘Why are you holding on to this loyalty? What are you doing?’” Cohen testified. “It was about time to listen to them.
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