President Donald Trump just can’t stop winning.
On Friday, he received an unconditional discharge in the New York “hush money” case overseen by Judge Juan Merchan. He will not receive jail time, he will not be fined, and there will be no punishment.
This comes after Merchan indicated last week that he would be delivering the discharge in an 18-page decision. This also comes after months of rumbling about Merchan’s complicated and conflicted relationship with the case.
(His daughter, Loren Merchan, has worked on several top Democrats’ campaigns over the years – including the president’s political opponents, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, for example)
Merchan also refused to lift the president’s gag order until today.
President Trump responded to his unconditional discharge on Friday on Truth Social:
“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.”
Trump noted the unconditional exoneration was a reflection of the “real Jury, the American people,” who overwhelmingly re-elected him in a landslide on November 5, 2024.
He called the victory a “MANDATE” and highlighted the insanity of the “hush money” case in the first place: “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.”
Unfortunately, the unconditional discharge still slaps the president with a “convicted felon” label, despite the exonerating decision from the judge.
Trump said he will appeal the “hoax” even after today and work to “restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice.”
It is very likely the U.S. Supreme Court will reverse that label upon the president’s appeal.
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