Judge Juan Merchan spent seven minutes during Friday’s sentencing hearing bemoaning that President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory prevented him from

The judgement cements the president-elect's felony conviction but allows him to return to the White House without the threat of a jail term or fine.

Donald Trump will return to the White House as the first-ever criminally convicted president after his sentencing in a Manhattan courtroom, where the judge presiding over his criminal hush money trial declined to send him to jail but preserved the jury’s historic verdict against the president-elect.

It’s been a political witch hunt. It was done to damage my reputation so that I would lose the election, and obviously, that didn’t work,” said Donald