The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, was sentenced this Friday by a court in New York to an “unconditional release”, a type of sentence that does not involve a fine, jail or probation, for the case of bribery of the former porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known as ‘Stormy Daniels’.
Trump was convicted in April on a total of 34 charges, when he was not even confirmed as an official candidate for the White House. The judge charged him with falsifying documents to hide a payment of 130,000 dollars to ‘Stormy Daniels’, whom he paid so that she would not talk about an alleged extramarital relationship.
The president-elect, who has spent months denouncing the case as political persecution, was not present in the New York court and heard the sentence by videoconference from his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
In his final statement before hearing the sentence, Trump said that this whole case “has represented a step backwards for New York and its judicial system” and insisted that what happened “has been a political witch hunt” designed to damage his “reputation.”
