Former President Donald Trump attended his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 23, 2024 (Picture: AP)
President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced in his hush money case just days before he returns to the White House.
Judge Juan Merchan’s decision to reject Trump’s bid to have the case tossed means he will be the first US president convicted of felony crimes to serve.
The judge set Trump’s sentencing for January 10 – ten days before Inauguration Day.
But Merchan indicated that Trump will not be jailed.
The hush money case stems from a $130,000 payment that Donald Trump’s (left) former lawyer made to silence porn star Stormy Daniels (right) on an alleged affair
Merchan stated that there was ‘no legal impediment to sentencing’ Trump and that it was ‘incumbent’ on him to do so before the president-elect is sworn into office.
Justice can be served ‘only by bringing finality to this matter’, the judge said.
A jury in May found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records around a $130,000 payment his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to porn star Stormy Daniels to silence her on an alleged affair.
At the time, Trump became the first former US president to be convicted of crimes.
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