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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "This was the best and fairest course of action all the way around," Grasso told Courthouse News on Friday, acknowledging the need to balance the guilty verdict with Trump's duties as the commander-in-chief. Trump disagrees; his communications director Steven Cheung called Merchan's order "deeply conflicted" and in "direct violation" of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity.
50% : But Merchan indicated that he will spare Trump from jail time, ruling that a sentence of unconditional discharge -- in which a case is closed without punishment -- is the best path forward to preserve Trump's appellate options and ability to govern.
47% : "President Trump must be allowed to continue the presidential transition process and to execute the vital duties of the presidency, unobstructed by the remains of this or any remnants of the witch hunts.
40% : " Should the sentencing go ahead as planned on Jan. 10 -- Trump's attorneys could ask an appellate court for an emergency pause -- it is possible that Trump appears virtually.
39% : Merchan is giving Trump the option to phone it in to address the president-elect's "concerns regarding the mental and physical demands during this transition period.
35% : Trump had hoped that Merchan would drop the case altogether when he filed a "Clayton motion," which is a motion to dismiss charges "in the interest of justice."
31% : Trump is the first president, current or former, in U.S. history to be charged with or found guilty of a crime.
25% : The sentence would absolve Trump of any tangible punishment, but it would draw to a close the historic case and officially classify the former president as a convicted felon.
22% : There should be no sentencing, and President Trump will continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are all dead.
22% : " The historic case came to a head in May when a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records, which were part of a broader scheme from Trump to nullify bad press related to his 2016 presidential campaign by paying hush money to a porn star he had sex with a decade earlier.

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