Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg threw up his hands in apparent frustration before the press Thursday afternoon a day before incoming President Donald Trump is set to be sentenced in the infamous hush-money case.

This’ll be among the least suspenseful of all sentencings. Judge Juan Merchan has announced in advance — quite pragmatically, actually — that he intends to sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge. To translate that bit of legal jargon: nothing.

Aside from a felony record that may yet be erased on appeal, the president-elect will face no punishment for trying to conceal his hush payment to Stormy Daniels.

The proceedings are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. Though the president-elect is expected to avoid jail time, his sentencing on 34 counts will formalize his status as a felon and make him the first to carry that distinction into the White House.

Trump faces sentencing for his New York hush-money conviction after the nation's highest court refused to intervene.

New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to postpone his sentencing in the hush money case, leaving the US Supreme Court as his last chance to delay Friday’s scheduled hearing.

President-elect Donald Trump said he respects the Supreme Court’s decision to deny his request to stop his sentencing in New York v. Trump from moving forward, but said Thursday night he will appeal,

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the US Supreme Court to pause his sentencing in the hush money case, a highly unusual request that relies in part on the court’s decision last year to grant him broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to cancel his upcoming sentencing in relation to Manhattan

In the two-page order, Merchan criticized Trump's lawyers for repeating arguments the court has already rejected and incorrectly citing legal authorities.

Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office urged the Supreme Court not to "take the extraordinary step" of preventing the sentencing.

Donald Trump's bid to halt his sentencing in his hush money case continued Tuesday with a 502-page lawsuit against Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.