{"id":59389,"date":"2025-01-11T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59389"},"modified":"2025-01-11T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T07:23:10","slug":"trump-discharged-unconditionally-in-hush-money-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/11\/trump-discharged-unconditionally-in-hush-money-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Discharged Unconditionally in Hush Money Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A New York judge has granted Donald Trump, the U.S. President-elect, an unconditional discharge in the hush money case, ruling that a conviction would undermine the integrity of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding over the case, Judge Juan Merchan stated that no further legal penalties were appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, attending the session virtually, condemned the prosecution as a \u201cdisgrace to the system,\u201d insisting it was politically motivated to damage his election bid.<\/p>\n<p>This landmark ruling sets a precedent, marking the first time a sitting or former U.S. president has faced such legal scrutiny while campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>The decision could significantly shape Trump\u2019s political trajectory amid ongoing controversies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A New York judge has granted Donald Trump, the U.S. President-elect, an unconditional discharge in the hush money case, ruling that a conviction would undermine the integrity of the presidency. Presiding over the case, Judge Juan Merchan stated that no further legal penalties were appropriate. Trump, attending the session virtually, condemned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59391,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions\/59391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}