Trump Sentenced to Unconditional Discharge in New York Hush Money Case
10th January 2025
Judge Juan Merchan sentenced President-elect Donald Trump to unconditional discharge.
In New York, an unconditional discharge means the court found someone committed the crime but thinks a punishment doesn’t serve a purpose.
That means Trump won’t serve prison time, fine, or probation supervision.
The sentencing means Trump is a felon. None of us are stupid. We all know the whole point of this circus was to slap Trump with the felon label.
There’s an echo in here.
UPDATE: Judge Merchan unconditionally discharges Trump’s sentence in the “hush money” case (The New Neo)
The lawfare that has been directed at Trump and others on the right has given a new meaning to the phrase “trumped up charges.” Every time someone on the left talked about how Trump was a convicted felon, it served to remind a great many people of the depths to which the left was willing to go – and actually had gone – to try to destroy Trump. It made the Trump opposition look bad, but they didn’t realize it, which was another example of how far they’d gone.
So now they get to continue to call him a felon. They’ve learned, though, that it didn’t much matter; Trump got elected anyway. It is, however, a way to continue to try to defame him and his supporters, by saying that those who voted for him don’t care about the law and are willing and even eager to vote for a criminal. Such arguments must appeal to those on the left, but fortunately that’s not the majority of the American people.