Donald Trump completed a pre-sentence interview with his New York City probation officer on Monday, a mandatory requirement before he is sentenced on July 11 by New York Judge Juan Marchan after being found guilty of all 34 charges in his hush money trial last month.
The Republican presidential candidate and now-convicted defendant appeared at the hearing online and completed “less than 30 minutes of routine, nondescript question-and-answer time,” a source told The Associated Press.
Trump’s lead lawyer, Todd Branche, was allowed to participate in a conference call to advise his client, which is not standard practice but was allowed because Judge Marchan did not object.
Martin Horn, a former New York City Department of Corrections and Probation commissioner, told NBC News ahead of Monday’s interview that conducting interviews via video call would be “highly unusual,” but acknowledged that bringing Trump to the probation office would be “very disruptive” and would require additional security measures.
Trump’s answers to questions during the interview about his personal history and current mental and physical health will be used to prepare a report to be submitted to Judge Marchan, who will be considering his sentence.
Trump was convicted on May 30 of 34 felony counts of concealing a $130,000 payment he made in October 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels to silence her about an alleged affair, and of falsifying business records just before that year’s election.
The former president’s defense team is due to submit its own sentencing recommendation on June 13, followed by prosecutors on June 27, while the judge is expected to announce his final sentence next month.
Trump’s sentence will be handed down just four days before he is due to be asked to formally accept the 2024 presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — an honor that could theoretically require him to accept from inside his jail cell.

Judge Marchan has the power to impose a wide range of penalties on the former president, from probation and community service to up to four years in prison.
After six weeks of often explosive testimony from Daniels, former tabloid publisher David Pecker and Trump’s estranged former fixer, Michael Cohen, a Republican, the jury unanimously convicted Trump.
He has denied any wrongdoing and maintained, before the trial began and throughout it, that the entire case was a “fraud” and the result was “rigged,” concocted by Joe Biden and his myriad political opponents to discredit him and keep him off the campaign trail as he pursues a belated second term in the White House.
Trump has made this claim to his supporters and allies in the conservative media since the verdict was announced, threatening “revenge” if he returns to the Oval Office.