Donald Trump has been handed an unconditional discharge after being convicted of 34 charges relating to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling.

Trump’s sentence of an unconditional discharge confirms he will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court sentencing of a former or future president took little more than half an hour.

Judge Juan Merchan imposed an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump receives no prison time or probation. Trump continues to appeal conviction.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday but said Trump's Jan.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday for falsifying business records in a years-old scheme to defraud voters, closing out the historic case that involved a hush money payment to a porn star and formalizing Trump as a convicted felon 10 days before his return to the White House.

Donald Trump, the first former US president convicted of a felony, was sentenced by a New York judge Friday to no jail for his hush money case, setting him up to return to the White House this month with a criminal record.

Appearing via video call from Florida and flanked by his attorney and two prominent American flags, Trump declared he was "totally innocent". It was the first time in this year-and-half long legal saga that Trump had uttered more than a "not guilty" or given a brief affirmative answer.