President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction. A judge ended the case Friday with a sentence of an unconditional discharge,

NEW YORK — 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.

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment. The outcome cements Trump’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

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 J. Trump’s New York criminal case culminated with him avoiding jail, but he is set to become the first felon to occupy the Oval Office.

After President-elect Donald J. Trump was sentenced Friday morning, a clerk entered a Judgment of Conviction for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records into the New York State Universal Court Management System,

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his hush money case, an outcome that cements his historic conviction. It was the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president and major presidential candidate.