President-elect Donald Trump tries again to get Friday's hush money...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : He said giving Trump what´s known as an unconditional discharge - closing the case without jail time, a fine or probation - "appears to be the most viable solution.
45% : Trump, less than two weeks from his inauguration, is poised to be the first president to take office convicted of crimes.
45% : The case centered on how Trump accounted for reimbursing his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who had made the payment to Daniels.
39% : Trump turned to the Appellate Division of the state's trial court a day after the trial judge, Judge Juan M. Merchan, rebuffed his bid to indefinitely postpone sentencing and ordered it to go ahead as scheduled on Friday.
39% : Trump is seeking an emergency order that would spare him from being sentenced while he appeals Merchan's decision last week to uphold the historic verdict.
35% : Merchan has signaled that he is not likely to punish Trump for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and will accommodate the transition by allowing him to appear at sentencing by video, rather than in person at a Manhattan courthouse.
26% : "Trump was convicted last May on charges involving an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the last weeks of Trump´s 2016 campaign to keep her from publicizing claims she´d had sex with him years earlier.

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