Donald Trump has been handed an unconditional discharge after being convicted of 34 charges relating to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling.

Trump’s sentence of an unconditional discharge confirms he will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court sentencing of a former or future president took little more than half an hour.

In a landmark case, President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced in New York on 34 felony counts tied to hush money payments and falsified business records. On Friday morning, Jan. 10, Judge Juan Merchan issued an unconditional discharge — a rare sentencing option in New York law that imposes no jail

After months of delays, Trump was sentenced Friday. Here's what's in store now that his felony status is finalized.

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning he is now a convicted felon in the eyes of New York state law but will face no further penalties.

Donald Trump, the first former US president convicted of a felony, was sentenced by a New York judge Friday to no jail for his hush money case, setting him up to return to the White House this month with a criminal record.

Appearing via video call from Florida and flanked by his attorney and two prominent American flags, Trump declared he was "totally innocent". It was the first time in this year-and-half long legal saga that Trump had uttered more than a "not guilty" or given a brief affirmative answer.