Donald Trump will be sentenced in the New York hush money case this morning just 10 days before he is inaugurated as president for the second time.
The 78-year-old will learn his fate at 9.30am after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute bid to delay the hearing in Manhattan.
Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in May after a seven-week trial.
He will become the first president in history to take the White House has a convicted felon, even though he is only likely to receive a light punishment.
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