NEW YORK TIMES
After months of delay, President-elect Donald J. Trump on Friday is set to become the first American president to be criminally sentenced.
He is expected to avoid jail or any other substantive punishment, but the proceeding will still carry significant symbolic importance. It will formalize his status as a felon, making him the first to carry that dubious designation into the presidency.
The sentencing, which comes 10 days before Mr. Trump’s second inauguration, stems from his conviction on charges of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his first presidential campaign.
Once the jury convicted him on all 34 felony counts in May, the former and future president fought tooth and nail to avoid the embarrassing spectacle of a sentencing. This month, his lawyers filed a series of requests in New York State Court to halt the proceeding, all of which failed, leading him to seek an emergency reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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