Judge Juan Merchan on Friday released audio of remarks inside his courtroom during Donald Trump’s “hush money” sentencing. Merchan sentenced the president-elect to an unconditional discharge on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his 2024 trial at the New York Supreme Court.

New York's highest court on Thursday declined to block Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent it from taking place as scheduled on Friday.

The nation’s high court denied Trump’s request for an emergency stay, or pause, of the criminal proceedings in his Manhattan case as he fights a set of rulings by state Supreme Court Justice Juan