With Friday's sentencing, Donald Trump is officially a criminal felon despite his best efforts to duck and dodge and seek favor with his particularly devoted judges. Kristy Greenberg, former federal prosecutor,

After Donald Trump won reelection to the US presidency, prosecutors dropped two of the four prosecutions he’d faced during much of his campaign to return to the White House. Those were both federal cases.

Donald Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He was sentenced Friday in a New York court.