Dems ‘Lost’ Another ‘Witch Hunt’: Trump Responds To Hush Money Sentencing

Just minutes after Judge Juan Merchan imposed an “unconditional discharge” sentence on President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, Trump blasted Democrats for the “pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt.”

While the unconditional discharge sentence carries no further punishments, it cements Trump’s status as a felon days before he is sworn in for his second term in the White House. Before imposing the sentence, Judge Merchan said the court had never seen such a “unique and remarkable set of circumstances,” adding that Trump is only protected from a prison sentence because the office of president shields him. In a Truth Social post, Trump argued that the unconditional discharge “proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE.”

“The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt,” Trump wrote. “After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE.”

Trump added that “this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED” and vowed to appeal the case.

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“The real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History,” he said. “As the American People have seen, this “case” had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference.”

Trump fought to delay the sentencing hearing, but in a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s request to pause it. The majority of the court did not rule on the merits of Trump’s argument but said that the question could be decided through an appeal. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the court’s three liberal justices to reject Trump’s request.

With Judge Merchan’s sentence officially imposed, Trump will enter the White House as the first president in U.S. history convicted of a felony.