Donald Trump will be sentenced in the hush money case just days before he is set to be inaugurated as US president, a judge ruled on today (January 3).
The sentencing will take place on January 10 after Justice Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the case. However the judge is understood to not be inclined to give him a jail sentence, reports have claimed.
He was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels in May of this year. It has been argued by lawyers that the case needs to be put to bed before Trump is recquired to govern.
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