Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor in the Donald Trump hush money case, presented his closing arguements on Friday during the sentencing hearing. He told the court that the president-elect's attacks on the criminal justice system had an impact far beyond the Manhattan courtroom.

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a hush-money trial that angered him and his supporters but didn’t prevent him from reclaiming the presidency.

Donald Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He was sentenced Friday in a New York court.

Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Trump attends his sentencing hearing with Judge Juan Merchan following jury conviction in his hush money case.

We’re going to appeal anyway, just psychologically, because frankly it’s a disgrace,” Trump said the evening before the sentencing.

The judgement cements the president-elect's felony conviction but allows him to return to the White House without the threat of a jail term or fine.

AP Photo/ Reba Saldahna, FILEBy Adam Reiss and Dareh Gregorian The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,

The charges related to payments Trump’s company made to a lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimburse him for paying off porn actor Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign.

On Friday, a New York judge imposed a sentence that ensures Donald Trump will be the first convicted felon to enter the White House when he is sworn in as president on Jan. 20. It was a brief and relatively calm final encounter of Trump's relationship with Justice Juan Merchan over 21 months and featured accusations of political bias from the former and stern dressings-down from the latter.