Excerpts from Trumps hush money sentencing [Video]

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court sentencing of a former or future president took little more than half an hour.Trump, appearing by video from his Palm Beach, Florida, home, received no punishment Friday for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. 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.A Manhattan prosecutor and one of Trump’s defense lawyers also spoke before Judge Juan M. Merchan issued the sentence, which is known as an unconditional discharge.Here are some key excerpts from the proceeding:President-elect Donald Trump“This has been a very terrible experience. I think it’s been a tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system. … I think it’s an embarrassment to New …