MSNBC Legal Analyst Defends Trump Discharge As ‘Justice’ [Video]

MSNBC legal analyst Kristen Gibbons Feden argued on Friday that President-elect Donald Trump’s unconditional discharge at his hush money case sentencing is “justice.”

Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge for his conviction on falsification of business records. Trump was convicted on more than 30 felony counts, stemming from charges he paid hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an affair. Trump continues to deny the affair and knowledge of any payments.

Following Merchan’s announcement, Feden and attorney Jeremy Saland joined MSNBC to react. Saland argued that the sentencing was “fair.”

“This is fair. It is what it is. That’s justice,” he said.

Saland argued that elected officials are not held to a higher “legal standard,” but a “moral” one, adding that others in Trump’s case may have faced a harsher sentence, but the case also may have never come to fruition if Trump wasn’t the defendant.

Feden, a former prosecutor, was in agreement, saying …