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Donald Trump was in New York City court again today, via teleconference, to receive sentencing in his hush money trial.

In a move that surprised many, Judge Juan Merchan issued an “unconditional discharge of all 34 charges,” exonerating the former president and ending the case.

“At this time, I impose unconditional discharge to cover all 34 counts. Sir, I wish you Godspeed as you assume your second term in office.”

The discharge means that the President will serve no jail time and have no other restrictions or probations placed on him.

Fox News reports that during the proceedings, Trump called the trail a “great embarrassment to the state of New York.”

After the proceedings, Trump released a statement on Truth Social calling the trial a “despicable charade”:

The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. 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. That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED. 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. 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. Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Today’s ruling by Judge Merchan reignites speculation that the entire hush money trial was simply a ploy to label Trump a “convicted felon” during the election.