{"id":257,"date":"2025-01-11T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/01\/11\/why-trump-was-spared-a-penalty-in-hush-money-sentencing-bbc-com\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:06:49","slug":"why-trump-was-spared-a-penalty-in-hush-money-sentencing-bbc-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/01\/11\/why-trump-was-spared-a-penalty-in-hush-money-sentencing-bbc-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump was spared a penalty in hush-money sentencing – BBC.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced to an “unconditional discharge” in his hush-money criminal trial. That means he will face no penalty in the form of prison time, probation or a fine.<\/p>\n

He will take office as the first US president with a felony conviction. <\/p>\n

The BBC’s Nada Tawfik looks what the sentence means for the incoming president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emma Vardy assesses the damage along Pacific Coast Highway, as winds continue to worsen the fires in the area.<\/p>\n

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Homes are gone in the wealthy Pacific Palisades area as wildfires rage on.<\/p>\n

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The blaze has been fuelled by fierce winds that are expected to reach up to 100mph (160km\/h).<\/p>\n

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The machinery was used to move hundreds of abandoned cars, clearing the road for fire crews.<\/p>\n

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Harris, who Trump defeated in the 2024 election, presided over the event as required by the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

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US President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced to an “unconditional discharge” in his hush-money criminal trial. That means he will face no penalty in the form of prison time, probation or a fine. He will take office as the first US president with a felony conviction. The BBC’s Nada Tawfik looks what the sentence means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}