{"id":4710,"date":"2025-01-10T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-trumps-sentencing-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:48:45","slug":"what-were-watching-trumps-sentencing-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-trumps-sentencing-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Trump\u2019s sentencing in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <b>What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/09\/supreme-court-trump-hush-money-sentencing-decision-00197432\">Supreme Court denied a last ditch effort<\/a> by President-elect Donald Trump to avoid his sentencing, which will take place at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Judge Juan Merchan has already said he will not give Trump any jail time, but the conviction will still stand.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s team is eyeing Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/10\/trump-fema-kevin-guthrie-florida-00197463\">POLITICO reported Friday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump will appear at his sentencing virtually.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>During an appearance on Fox News last night, Trump addressed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/09\/congress\/trump-and-obamas-moment-00197472\">friendly moment with former President Barack Obama<\/a> at Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral yesterday. \u201cIt did look very friendly, I must say,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how friendly it looked. I saw it on your wonderful network, just a little while ago before I came in and I said &#8216;Boy, they look like two people that like each other.&#8217; And we probably do.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/09\/congress\/rfk-jr-tests-the-kennedy-name-00197328\">is seeing how far his last name will take him<\/a>, especially in trying to court Massachusetts Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are Trump&#8217;s latest administration picks\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/09\/congress\/trumps-pick-for-sweden-00197448\">tapping Christine Jack Toretti to serve as the next ambassador to Sweden<\/a> Toretti failed to garner enough support in the Senate during Trump&#8217;s last presidency when she was nominated to serve as ambassador to Malta.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/09\/congress\/trump-turns-again-to-fox-news-00197453\">picked Fox News contributor Leo Terrell<\/a> to serve as senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department, Harmeet K. Dhillon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today: \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching The Supreme Court denied a last ditch effort by President-elect Donald Trump to avoid his sentencing, which will take place at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Judge Juan Merchan has already said he will not give Trump any jail time, but the conviction will still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}