President-elect Donald Trump took to social media shortly after being sentenced in his New York criminal case Friday and said he will appeal and seek a dismissal of the entire "hoax."
NEWSMAX -- Trump appeared remotely with his attorney and was formally sentenced Friday on his felony conviction of falsifying business records, but Democrat Judge Juan M. Merchan 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.
"The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE," Trump posted on Truth Social.
"That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED."
Trump then added that the "real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History."
"As the American People have seen, this ‘case' had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference," Trump wrote.
"Today's event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Trumps sentence of an unconditional discharge caps a case that saw the former and future president charged with 34 felonies, put on trial for almost two months and convicted on every count. Yet, the legal detour — and sordid details aired in court of a plot to bury affair allegations — didn't hurt him with voters, who elected him to a second term.