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Excerpts from President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing

"Far from expressing any kind of remorse for his criminal conduct, the defendant has purposefully bred disdain for our judicial institutions and the rule of law."

Judge Juan Merchan, right, sentences President-elect Donald Trump, who appeared remotely via video with his attorney Todd Blanche, left, during Trump’s sentencing hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court., Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Judge Juan Merchan, right, sentences President-elect Donald Trump, who appeared remotely via video with his attorney Todd Blanche, left, during Trump’s sentencing hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court., Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
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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.

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