Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Trump attends his sentencing hearing with Judge Juan Merchan following jury conviction in his hush money case.

Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump on Friday to no jail time, probation, or fines after he was convicted this year by a jury of falsifying business records.

Out of options, Donald Trump faced the one thing he desperately tries to avoid: accountability for wrongdoing.

President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Trump was convicted last May of 34 counts of falsifying business records,

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.

With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge, and prosecutors aren't opposing it. That would mean no jail time, no probation and no fines would be imposed, but nothing is final until Friday's proceeding is done.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced Friday after being convicted of falsifying business records to cover up hush money to a porn star.

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President-elect Donald Trump has been formally sentenced in his New York hush money case, but the judge has declined to impose any punishment

The judge overseeing the hush money case against President-elect Trump sentenced him to "unconditional discharge," meaning he will remain a convicted felon but will face no further penalty or jail time.

Trump was found guilty in May of 34 felonies in authorizing a scheme in 2017 to falsify records in order to cover up reimbursements for a "hush money" payment.