By - President-elect Donald Trump is set to face sentencing at 9:30 a.m. ET today in the New York hush money case, meaning he will become the first president to have been sentenced for a criminal conviction once he’s sworn into office on Jan. 20.
- State Judge Juan Merchan said last week he’s likely to give Trump an unconditional discharge, a sentence that allows the conviction to stand with no further penalties, such as jail time.
- The sentencing was allowed to go forward after the Supreme Court decided 5-4 yesterday to reject Trump’s request to drop the proceeding. Trump said he thought it was a “fair decision” and alluded to possible further appeals, such as an appeal of the verdict.
- Trump was convicted in May of falsifying records related to hush money that his then-attorney Michael Cohen paid adult film star Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Daniels testified that she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, which he has denied.
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