Donald Trump Slams Biden Over 'Witch-Hunt', Announces Appeal After Hush Money Trial: 'Pathetic, Un-American'

US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday criticised the Biden-Harris administration, accusing it of orchestrating a " witch-hunt" against him and stating that he would appeal his sentencing in the hush money trial, where he was granted an unconditional discharge despite being convicted on 34 felony charges.

In a post on the social media platform TruthSocial, Trump claimed that the Democrats, with the support of the Justice Department under the Biden-Harris administration, had spent millions of dollars over six years to launch a "pathetic, unAmerican" witch hunt against him. He added that they had failed after he was given an unconditional discharge in his case.

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He called the charges against him "completely baseless, illegal, and fake" and argued that the unconditional discharge demonstrated that there was no legitimate case against him.

"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," he wrote.

Trump also announced his plan to appeal the "hoax" case, alleging that the process was biased. "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."

In dismissing the jury that convicted him, Trump claimed that the true jury was the people who had voted for him and given him a mandate as the 47th President of the US.

Trump's Hush Money Trial

On Friday, Justice Juan Merchan imposed an unconditional discharge sentence on Donald Trump after he was convicted by a jury on 34 felony charges. The sentence cited the protections afforded to the office of the president. Under this sentence, Trump will not have to serve any prison time or pay fines.

"The protections [of the presidency] are, however, a legal mandate which, pursuant to the rule of law, this court must respect and follow. However, despite the extraordinary breadth of those protections, one power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury verdict," Merchan stated while delivering his judgement.

The case, which has been ongoing since 2016, concerns a purported $130,000 payment made by Trump to an adult-film star during his first presidential campaign to prevent her from revealing allegations of an affair they had a decade earlier.