DONALD TRUMP

Daily Mail, UK - Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed how he got President-elect Donald Trump to shift his attention away from annexing Canada at their meeting last year. rudeau shared that Trump's plan to make Canada a U.S. state came up during his trip down to Mar-a-Lago late last year.

'We started musing back and forth about this,' Trudeau recalled about his meeting with Trump. 'And I started to suggest well maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts.'

The Canadian leader revealed what went down in the closed-door meeting during an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki.  'He immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation,' Trudeau said. 

CNBC - President Donald Trump was sentenced without any penalties Friday in his New York criminal hush money case, 10 days before his inauguration for a second White House term. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to “unconditional discharge,” meaning no jail, no probation and no fine.

“This has been a very terrible experience,” Trump, who attended the hearing remotely, said before receiving the sentence. “This has been a political witch hunt,” he said, claiming the case was brought “to damage my reputation so I would lose the election.”

A jury in May found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush money payment his then-personal lawyer paid porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels was paid for her silence about claims she had sex once with Trump a decade earlier, claims the president-elect has denied.

Time -  Can he still vote? Trump is registered to vote in Florida and he will be able to vote there. Florida does bars people convicted of felonies from voting, but restores their right to vote after they have completed their sentence.  For people convicted of felonies in other states — like Trump — Florida only makes a person ineligible to vote if they lost their voting rights in the state where they were convicted. New York doesn't let a person convicted of a felony vote while they are incarcerated, but restores voting rights once that person is released.

Can he own a gun? No. Under federal law, people convicted of felonies are not allowed to possess firearms.

Can Trump hold office with a felony conviction? There is nothing in federal law that prevents a person from becoming president because they have been convicted of a crime. State laws vary on whether a person with a criminal record can run for state and local offices. Some require a pardon or expungement to run for office. There are no such limits to run for federal office.

Can he travel outside the U.S.?Yes. As president, Trump will have a diplomatic passport enabling him to travel to foreign countries for official business and can also keep a regular, or tourist passport. People sentenced to incarceration or probation can have their passports denied or revoked, but that isn't the case with Trump.Some countries restrict or reserve the right to prohibit visits from people with felony convictions, including Canada, the United Kingdom and Israel.

Will this take away business opportunities? Trump's felony conviction could bar him from holding liquor licenses, but that doesn't necessarily mean his golf courses and hotels will have to stop serving booze.In New Jersey, for example, where Trump owns three golf courses, state law prohibits anyone who has been convicted of a crime “involving moral turpitude," from holding a liquor license.But Trump's company has said his properties are all owned through corporate entities, and that he is not officer or director of any entity that holds any liquor licenses.

 Trump's conviction could also bar him from reentering the casino business, if he wanted, because people with criminal records are typically unable to obtain gaming licenses. Trump once owned three casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but no longer does.

NPR’s Ximena Bustillo says it’s key to note that Trump was one Supreme Court justice away in the vote from not having to be sentenced today. He has tapped several of his personal lawyers on the case to join his next administration, including John Sauer, who appealed the case to the Supreme Court. Trump has vowed to appeal the case, but some ethical questions remain over his lawyers' ability to do so if they are confirmed to serve in the executive branch.

NY Times - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied President-elect Donald J. Trump’s emergency bid to halt his criminal sentencing in New York, all but ensuring it would proceed as planned on Friday. In a brief unsigned order, a five-justice majority noted that Mr. Trump was not facing jail time and that he could still challenge his conviction “in the ordinary course on appeal.”

Although Mr. Trump had argued that being sentenced 10 days before his inauguration would distract from the presidential transition, the majority held, “The burden that sentencing will impose on the president-elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial.”

Four of the court’s conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — noted dissents without providing reasons.

Political Wire -  Danish news outlet DR claims that President-elect Donald Trump’s aides “bribed” homeless and poor people with dinners in return for acting as Trump supporters during Donald Trump Jr’s visit to Greenland this week