Judge Juan Merchan on Friday released audio of remarks inside his courtroom during Donald Trump’s “hush money” sentencing. Merchan sentenced the president-elect to an unconditional discharge on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his 2024 trial at the New York Supreme Court.

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.

The nation’s high court denied Trump’s request for an emergency stay, or pause, of the criminal proceedings in his Manhattan case as he fights a set of rulings by state Supreme Court Justice Juan