'There is no case, there never was a case': Trump snaps after becoming a felon

Donald Trump gloated on social media after successfully avoiding jail time for his felony convictions.

New York justice Juan Merchan granted the president-elect an unconditional discharge for his 34 convictions by a jury for falsifying business records, making clear the sentence would have been more severe if he had not been re-elected to a second term, but Trump raged against the prosecution after the virtual hearing.

"The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt," Trump posted on Truth Social. "After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE."

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During the sentencing hearing, Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney's office, refuted Trump's repeated claims about the criminal case being a political "witch hunt" as an attack on the rule of law.

"That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED," Trump posted. "The real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History. As the American People have seen, this 'case' had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference."

"Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice," Trump added. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"