Why For Just A Few Tense Minutes Donald Trump Was Not Above The Law

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-historic-day-as-donald-trump-becomes-first-president-to-be-sentenced-as-a-convicted-felon/

He then added “despite the extraordinary breadth of those protections, one power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury verdict.”

A verdict required a sentence of some kind, but that brought Merchan back to the presidential protections.

“This court has determined that the only lawful sentence that permits entry of a judgment of conviction without encroaching upon the highest office in the land, is an unconditional discharge,” Merchan concluded. “Therefore at this time I impose that sentence to cover all 34 counts.”