The rare and lenient sentence, which will spare President-elect Donald J. Trump jail time, was used to address his unusual status.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in relation to his Manhattan hush money case, cementing his legacy as America’s first convicted felon to assume the presidency.

Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing in New York, a state judge has said he plans for a no-penalty sentence called an unconditional discharge, but what exactly is it? Unconditional discharge is when a defendant is convicted without punishments such as imprisonment,