Presenting the virtual court of his home in Mar-A-Lago on Friday, the president chose Donald Trump sentenced to his crimes in the case of “Hush Money” in New York and released without restrictions.
Judge Juan Merchan followed a promise made a week ago to give Trump an absolute probation judgment, which comes with a criminal sentence or any other restriction that can obstruct Trump after his inauguration on January 20.
Merchan said Friday’s conviction that he granted this sentence because the idea that it was the only legal option, only 10 days before Trump assumed the presidency.
Merchan told the court that “it was an ordinary case at the point of fact”, even if once the courts came out, the trial itself had not been more special or exclusive than any other.
However, he told Trump, the same may not be the same with the cases surrounding the conviction of the elected president “due to the workplace he occupied and will soon occupy. ” Merchan said that the legal protections granted to the president’s workplace who were extraordinary, “not the occupant of the workplace. “
These legal protections were something that exceeded all others, Merchan said, but they were somewhat mitigating. He said they had either reduced the severity of the crimes or erased the jury’s verdict.
Merchan said he determined that the only lawful sentence he could give, without encroaching on the highest post in the land, was an unconditional discharge.
Donald Trump, the civilian, he said, has not received such an indulgent sentence.
In the courtroom, Trump and Todd Blanche’s attorney, who was also operated on through the pre-aspect, chosen to serve as a subpultor general, can notice through a video-stream aspect through the aspect, with two American flags visible, in a room with dark wood walls.
Trump had to talk to the court. He described the trial as “very horrible experience” and “horrible setbacks for New York. ”
“With all the terrible things that happen, I’ve been charged for calling legal expenses a legal expense,” Trump said, referring to falsified reimbursements to a former lawyer, for a “silent” payment at the center of the case.
“It’s been a political witch hunt,” Trump said on camera. “It was done to damage my reputation so that I’d lose the election, and obviously, that didn’t work.”
“The fact is I’m totally innocent,” Trump said. “I did nothing wrong.”
Before the condemnation, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that Trump’s movements through attacking the judicial formula and prosecutors in this case “constitutes a direct attack on the rule of law itself”.
“Far from expressing some kind of regret for his corrupt behavior, the defendant intentionally raised the disdain for our judicial establishments and the rule of law, and did so to serve his own purposes and inspire others to reject the verdict of the jury that deserts so unpleasant, “Steinglass said.
“In a nutshell, this defendant has caused pain in the public’s belief of the Formula of Justice of Crook and has placed judicial officials in the dangerous way,” Steinglass said.
Blanche said he did not disagree with the Steinglass evaluation of Trump’s case and behavior. He said that it was not only Trump and Mavens through Trump who have not been mentioned, however, the majority of the American people, referring to those who voted for the Republican in November.
At each one, Trump and his lawyers have battled Manhattan prosecutors since the investigation of the “hush money” investigation in 2018. They involved the tasks of prosecutors and Merchan’s decisions, fighting the Supreme Court several times, including an effort this week for the hearing on Friday.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court said it would not interfere on behalf of Trump, racing the way in Merchan to make its decision. Trump, in a while after the decision of the Superior Court, said he read it and “thought it was a fair decision, in fact,” noting that the judges of the Supreme Court under the pressure that simply appeal and that there would really be “really” Estría.
“But we are going to on anyway,” he added in his remarks on Thursday evening.
“So I will do my little thing tomorrow. They can laugh with their political opponent,” Trump said.
Although there are no chambers in the courtroom, an audio recording of the procedure will be after the end of the hearing.
While Trump’s trial and accusation brought crowds and afternoon lines, on Friday morning, the scarce general public line and no spectator in the park on the other side of the street was visual before dawn.
Trump discovered that the fault in May after a seven -week trial. A unanimous jury discovered that he committed 34 crimes through the permission of a program in 2017 to falsify the albums, in order to reimburse for a payment of “money Hush” to the adult movie star Daniels Daniels.
Daniels testified the trial, as Trump’s former lawyer and “repairing” of his silence in an alleged sexual assembly with Trump for years before.
Several witnesses said Trump faced an electorate that hadn’t learned about Daniels’ story before the 2016 election.
Merchan arrested Trump 10 times during the trial for violating a gag order that forbids public comments on witnesses, court personnel and others. When issuing the tenth appointment of contempt, Merchan, who has declared the exclusive cases of the trial and scored and the hard defendant: he pressed the sentence probably on Friday.
“The last thing I must do is put you in prison,” said Merchan.
Marchan told Trump on Friday: “The only legal sentence that makes a conviction without invading the post in the country is an unconditional release.
“Godspeed as you assume your second term in office,” Merchan said.