Trump to be sentenced for conviction in New York "hush money" case before inauguration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump led his entourage out of the courtroom, huddled for a moment with his lawyers, and then turned to address the cameras awaiting his reaction.
54% : He looked straight ahead as the jury's foreperson pronounced Trump guilty 34 times, and as Merchan thanked the jury for their service before allowing them to file out of the room.
49% : The jury concluded Trump, while president in 2017, authorized a scheme to falsify business records in order to conceal Cohen's repayment.
48% : After Merchan himself stepped out, Trump rose, frowning deeply, and briefly grasped his son Eric's hand.
42% : Sentencing in the case was stalled for months as Trump campaigned for a return to the presidency.
41% : In the hallway just outside the courtroom -- surrounded by a rotating posse of Republican allies, lawyers and Secret Service agents -- Trump seethed about the case while campaigning to a gaggle of press cameras.
33% : He also said that Trump may appear virtually, rather than in person for the sentencing.
33% : Merchan held Trump in contempt 10 times for violating a gag order prohibiting public statements about potential jurors, witnesses and others.Witnesses, beginning with former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, described two schemes at the core of the case.
33% : Days before the election, Cohen paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels -- also a witness in the trial -- in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
33% : Trump, who had frequently stared at the jury of his peers during the trial, would not make eye contact with them as his sentence was pronounced.
29% : Trump became the first former president ever convicted of crimes in May, when a unanimous jury found him guilty in the New York case.
27% : Justice Juan Merchan will sentence Trump for his crimes on Jan. 10 -- just 10 days before his inauguration on Jan. 20 -- in a court proceeding that will be unlike any in America's 248 years.
23% : Merchan indicated in his ruling that Trump will not be sentenced to serve time behind bars.
23% : Inside the courtroom, Trump grumbled quietly, but often leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed as prosecutors and lawyers questioned more than 20 witnesses.
19% : The first was a plan hatched by Trump, Pecker and former attorney Michael Cohen to "catch" stories or allegations that might hurt Trump's 2016 presidential candidacy and "kill" them by paying people in exchange for nondisclosure agreements.

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