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00:02President-elect Donald Trump received an unconditional discharge Friday in his
00:05New York criminal case involving hush money payments.
00:08Manhattan Judge Juan Merchant delivered the sentence formally,
00:11making Trump the first criminal convict to assume the Oval Office,
00:14and it carries no jail time, probation, or fines.
00:17Trump attended the hearing remotely and described the case as a political witch hunt
00:21aimed at tarnishing his reputation.
00:23A jury in May found him guilty of 34 felonies of falsifying business records
00:27tied to a $130,000 payment made by his lawyer to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
00:33Judge Merchant stated that the unique protections of the presidency justify the lenient sentence.
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