President-elect Donald Trump is poised to become commander in chief again, this time as a convicted felon but one who has been able to sidestep sentences in three of the four criminal cases against him.
The no-penalty sentence handed down by New York Judge Juan Merchan in Trump’s hush money trial on Friday, an “unconditional discharge,” concludes a saga from which the president-elect has emerged politically more powerful than before.
Republicans, including party strategist John Feehery, excoriated the New York hush-money case, in which a jury found Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records so he and his attorneys could cover up payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence regarding their alleged extramarital affair in 2006 before the 2016 election.
“It’s a bulls*** conviction that says more about our broke…
