Sentencing on July 11th.
Tucker Carlson says, “Anybody defending this verdict is a danger to you and your family.”
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Sentencing is July 11th, but the RNC convention is 7/15.
It’s very possible that Trump will be temporarily free but weeks away from going to prison as he is nominated as GOP candidate for President. Also possible he will already be in prison while nominated and won’t be able to attend.
He’s not going to prison. Unfortunately. I could be wrong, but I don’t believe any of these low class felonies have mandatory sentencing.
Probation and house arrest maybe after months of appeals. But he’ll be where he needs to be in July.
Hopefully, he loses in November and just fades away.
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The average president has been convicted of 0.76 felonies.
Correct to my understanding, I could be wrong too. I know there’s no chance of the maximum 4 years per count x 34. I consider it more likely that the law will bend over backwards again in the face of overwhelming rhetoric from the right that this is a rigged trial.
Still, I don’t think it’s impossible to have something like 34 sentences of 1 year, served concurrently. I don’t think any expert could say what’s likely in a landmark case like this.
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Agreed. But I also think any other 80-something convicted of low class felony as a first conviction would also get only probation.
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I do agree, I predict a slap on the wrist as most likely.
It’s still nice to remember that the rapist Donald Trump is a twice-impeached convicted felon.
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Yeah, I’ll be shocked if he actually goes to prison. Sadly, the big crimes aren’t going to see the inside of a courtroom until after the election, if ever.
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Don’t forget rich and white, those tend to help with sentencing too.
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Since it’s a non-violent felony the sentence will be stayed until after appeal…and he IS going to appeal.
If he wins the election, I expect the courts to rule that he cannot be incarcerated while in office, as doing so would be an impairment on his constitutional duties.
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I’ve already gotten 3 different fund raising texts from dems because of the verdict.
From the NYT live blog:
(Apparently his primary fundraising website crashed, but has since been brought back online.)
Whether or not you think Trump is guilty. Whether or not he is IN FACT guilty. This is not a good thing.
I’m on record as saying Trump is a toxic narcissist clown. I still think that. But the last 2 trials both smell of political prosecutions. A large part of the country sees them as illegitimate uses of the courts and that is dangerous.
Tell me if anything listed isn’t factual:
Both James and Brag promised to go after Trump as part of their campaigns.
Both got money indirectly from bogeyman Soros.
The civil trial was at least a somewhat novel theory and resulted in an unprecedented level of fines for the violations involved.
Those fines were immediately cut by a large percentage.
James then, at least somewhat unusually, initially rejected the bond posted.
The criminal trial involves a very novel theory/application of state law.
The FEC declined to even fine the Trump campaign for the payments to Cohen.
Bragg’s predecessor refused to bring this case.
The statue of limitations on the misdemeanor charges that became felony charges due to the novel application of the law had expired.
I may be wrong on this one, but the underlying crime for the criminal trial was never specified that I know of.
Everyone should be able to see that all of that looks extremely bad. It can easily be interpreted as a couple of partisan DAs had their man and went and found crimes to fit. I honestly believe it would have been better for the country if these charges had never been brought. The GA charges and especially the classified files charges have a much better basis in law.
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The old “do your own research” trick.
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We can put that question to bed.
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Has RDO jumped the shark? I’m just asking questions.
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People are saying that.
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emphasis mine
I dunno, it looks to me like a former president was charged by one of the most significant US states of a crime and was found guilty. I think thats actually a powerful affirmation of being a republic that the judicial machinery kept going despite his being a former president.
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