Trump's NY Election Interference Trial - Trump is found guilty on all 34 counts

[squistion 1,947]

From Tim Schochet's fave politician Maxine Waters. 

https://x.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1796307201352491382

Hallelujah!!! My predictions came true! I predicted three years ago at a speech with the Human Rights Campaign that Stormy Daniels would be the one to get Trump, my faith in the criminal justice system has been strengthened!

Trump shut your mouth! You talk about saving the Constitution? You’re the one who has disrespected the Constitution and you have supporters who believe we should get rid of the Constitution! Just shut your mouth, you’re convicted on all counts!

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

27 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

The defense has to pick from the jury pool they're given. That doesn't mean the jury is impartial. 

Jesus fock. You guys better never about the end of democracy, or institutional racism ever again. You're championing all of the institutional corruption you've hung your imaginary moral superiority hat on for the last few decades. 

 

Thirty-four felony convictions. Keep crying.

[jerryskids 6,559]

13 minutes ago, Dozer FBG said:

Not sure how I could get any better. Seems like I nailed it.

I'm sure it does.    

[5-Points 3,387]

1 minute ago, Pimpadeaux said:

Thirty-four felony convictions. Keep crying.

I'm not crying. I'm  at you retards that think you've done something today. 

Be careful what you wish for. 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,927]

14 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Corbin Carroll is the name of my pain 

That guy is even more surprising than J Rod

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

Just now, 5-Points said:

I'm not crying. I'm  at you retards that think you've done something today. 

Be careful what you wish for. 

 

Thirty-four felony convictions. Keep  about Hunter Biden's laptop, voter fraud, trannies and whatever else you have in your tired, tattered golf bag.

[jerryskids 6,559]

16 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Corbin Carroll is the name of my pain 

I don't do fantasy baseball, but I'm a DBacks fan.  eesh...  

[The Real timschochet 6,410]

We need to remember that every one of us reading this thread is unusual, because in some form or another we’ve paid attention to this trial. Most people haven’t. They’re going to wake up tomorrow and see headlines “Trump is guilty!” “Trump is a convicted felon!” How they will react is pure speculation; nobody really knows. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,927]

1 minute ago, The Real timschochet said:

We need to remember that every one of us reading this thread is unusual, because in some form or another we’ve paid attention to this trial. Most people haven’t. They’re going to wake up tomorrow and see headlines “Trump is guilty!” “Trump is a convicted felon!” How they will react is pure speculation; nobody really knows. 

Most people also ask for what. The floor is yours. Tell them. 

[The Real timschochet 6,410]

8 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Most people also ask for what. The floor is yours. Tell them. 

Falsifying business records in order to commit election fraud. 

See how easy that was? 

[squistion 1,947]

8 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

We need to remember that every one of us reading this thread is unusual, because in some form or another we’ve paid attention to this trial. Most people haven’t. They’re going to wake up tomorrow and see headlines “Trump is guilty!” “Trump is a convicted felon!” How they will react is pure speculation; nobody really knows. 

For those who haven't paid attention to this trial. I can't see how this helps Trump in any way.

[The Real timschochet 6,410]

Listening to Sean Hannity right now. He is as angry as I’ve ever heard him. But his arguments are completely technical and legalese. He doesn’t mention the key components of this case- namely that Trump had a porn star paid off in order to hide the fact from the public so that it wouldn’t hurt his election chances. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,927]

6 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Falsifying business records in order to commit election fraud. 

See how easy that was? 

Yeah.  People watch violent criminals waltz out of jail hours after being rested and think “you know, they really need to crack down on, wait, what was it again, business records ?” 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,927]

2 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Listening to Sean Hannity right now. He is as angry as I’ve ever heard him. But his arguments are completely technical and legalese. He doesn’t mention the key components of this case- namely that Trump had a porn star paid off in order to hide the fact from the public so that it wouldn’t hurt his election chances. 

So covering up embarrassing personal issues is wrong now? Like your Son smoking crack and brandishing a weapon and saying he has to give half his money to you, but saying it was all the work of the Russians? Would that be election interference? 

[The Real timschochet 6,410]

6 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah.  People watch violent criminals waltz out of jail hours after being rested and think “you know, they really need to crack down on, wait, what was it again, business records ?” 

I think it’s the proper role of city prosecutors to convict violent criminals and white collar criminals alike. It’s not an either-or. 

[The Real timschochet 6,410]

5 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

So covering up embarrassing personal issues is wrong now? Like your Son smoking crack and brandishing a weapon and saying he has to give half his money to you, but saying it was all the work of the Russians? Would that be election interference? 

If Joe Biden committed a crime involving Hunter then prosecute him. But stop whining about Trump; you sound petulant and stupid. 

[WhiteWonder 2,675]

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Falsifying business records can be a lower-level misdemeanour in New York, but Trump faced more serious felony charges because of a supposed second crime, an alleged illegal attempt to influence the 2016 election.

Prosecutors broadly alleged that violations of federal and state election laws, along with tax fraud, applied to this case. But they did not specify to the jury exactly which one was broken.

Legal experts say there are questions around the scope and application of the federal law that could form a basis for appeal. Never before has a state prosecutor invoked an uncharged federal crime, and there’s a question if the Manhattan District Attorney had the jurisdiction to do so.

 

 

[listen2me 23 1,825]

4 hours ago, Fnord said:

I'm not completely convinced that the impetus for this specific set of charges wasn't partisan. BUT, the fact is the jury found him guilty on all counts. Trump doesn't need to be knocked out of the election. His followers need to be shown how ridiculous their support is for a man that would happily demolish anything for his own personal aggrandizement.

They also need to be shown that the American justice system, while imperfect, is not nearly as corrupt as they want to believe it is. This is the true danger of Donald Trump: his followers trust him more than they trust anything, especially the institutions that prevent this country from becoming a banana republic. Think about that. A guy that can't win a court case with all of his built-in advantages has millions believing his lies and ready to burn down basically everything. 

What charges do you specifically care about and think are unprecedented amongst politicians?

With due respect, all I see in this post is "HIS VOTERS MUST KNOW HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF!"

Its basically my point 

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

His wife wasn't there to support him. His kids weren't there to support him. His own family doesn't support and care about him. He is twisting in the wind. He is desperate, crazy, convicted and alone.

Not exactly presidential material here, to say the least.

[Mark Davis 339]

49 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Most people also ask for what. The floor is yours. Tell them. 

Essentially the accounting coding written on the back of the check wasn't into the correct account and he not only knew, he knew the treatment was improper.  But not only that, he did it primarily to win the election.  The average person will never digest that, they'll think it's because he paid off a porn star he had sex with.

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

25 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

If Joe Biden committed a crime involving Hunter then prosecute him. But stop whining about Trump; you sound petulant and stupid. 

If Joe Biden got a traffic ticket, MAGAturds would blow it up into the crime of the century.

[listen2me 23 1,825]

They got him.   If he was found guilty of whatever cool.  I like to gamble.  Id gamble to say the court was bias.  Trump is polarizing.  Obviously.  We will never know.  

I also think these charges are goofy.   Hey law is the law.  He influenced an election because he got with a pornstar and kept it quiet!  Biden throws down executive orders to supress a cognitive interview/test.  In an election year needless to say.   One is criminal I suppose.  Even tho its the same thing but not.    

I laugh

[BarneyFife 28]

I’m hopeful a civil war breaks out. 

[The Real timschochet 6,410]

I hadn’t heard this until tonight, but apparently a few days ago Trump said “I can’t get a fair hearing from this judge; look at him.” 

The judge is of Colombian descent. This is reminiscent of the Trump University trial back in 2015, during which Trump complained that he could not get a fair hearing because the judge was of Mexican descent. Back then at least some Republicans condemned him for his blatant racism. Today, total silence. Conservatives are used to the bigotry by now and are willing to live with it. 

[jonmx 2,424]

6 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

Falsifying business records in order to commit election fraud. 

See how easy that was? 

That is cute, but that is not even remotely close to what  election fraud is.

What is election fraud?

Department of Justice Fact Sheet on Election Fraud (*third link)

II.    Conduct Actionable as Federal Election Fraud, Intimidation, Or Suppression 
 
     The following activities provide a basis for federal prosecution under the statutes referenced in each category: 
 
    Paying voters to register to vote, or to vote in elections where a federal candidate’s name is on the ballot (52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), 18 U.S.C. § 597), or through the use of the mails in those States where vote buying is a “bribery” offense (18 U.S.C. § 1952), or in federal elections in those States where purchased votes or registrations are voidable under state law (52 U.S.C. § 20511). 
 
    Giving false information for the purpose of establishing eligibility to vote; voting multiple times in the same election (52 U.S.C. §§ 10307(c), 10307(e)). 
 
    Intimidating voters through physical duress in any election (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(1)(A)); or through physical or economic intimidation in connection with registration to vote or voting in a federal election (52 U.S.C. § 20511, 18 U.S.C. § 594).  If the victim is a federal employee, intimidation in connection with all elections is prohibited (18 U.S.C. § 610). 
 
    Malfeasance by election officials, acting “under color of law,” such as diluting valid ballots with invalid ones (so-called “ballot box stuffing”), rendering false vote tabulations, or preventing valid voter registrations or votes from being given effect in any election (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242), as well as in elections where federal candidates are on the ballot (52 U.S.C. §§ 10307(c), 10307(e), 20511). 
 
    Qualifying fictitious individuals to vote in federal elections by placing fictitious names on voter registration rolls (52 U.S.C. §§ 10307(c), 20511); or through “color of law” in any election (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242). 
 
    Preventing or impeding qualified voters from participating in an election where a federal candidate’s name is on the ballot through such tactics as disseminating false information as to the date, timing, or location of federal voting activity (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242). 
 
    Registering to vote, or voting in a federal election, by persons who are not entitled to vote under applicable state law, most notably persons who have committed serious crimes, and persons who are not United States citizens (18 U.S.C. §§ 1015(f), 611, and 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg-10). 
 
    Falsely claiming United States citizenship in connection with registering to vote or voting in any election (18 U.S.C. §§ 911, 1015(f)). 
 
    Voting in a federal election by anyone who is not a United States citizen in those States where citizenship is a requisite for the franchise (currently all 50 States) (18 U.S.C. § 611). 
 
    Providing false information concerning a voter’s name, address, or period of residence in order to register to vote, or to vote in a federal election (52 U.S.C. §§ 10307(c), 20511). 
 
    Causing the submission of voter registrations in any election, or of ballots in federal elections, that are materially defective under applicable state law (52 U.S.C. § -3- 20511). 
 
    Ordering, keeping, or having under one’s control any troops or armed men at any polling place in a general or special election, if one is a civil or military officer or employee of the United States government (18 U.S.C. § 592). 

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COMPLETE FAILURE!!!  TRY AGAIN!

This is why the judge or the prosecutor did not define what the specific crimes were.  The legal definition is way different than what the jury was Falsely lead to believe. There is not a law which criminalizes what Trump did beyond the frivolous misdemeanor charge which is way past its statute of limitations.  Not one.
 

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

3 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

The judge is of Colombian descent

Liberals  

Probably an illegal  

[jonmx 2,424]

6 hours ago, jerryskids said:

I'm sure it does.    

You are such a cuck.  Why not read some legitimate informative information like I posted above instead of worrying about what those suffering from TDS think. 

[GutterBoy 2,898]

7 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah.  People watch violent criminals waltz out of jail hours after being rested and think “you know, they really need to crack down on, wait, what was it again, business records ?” 

Normal everyday Americans are sick of watching the elites like trump think they can do whatever they want.  Rich elites game the system to get away with whatever they want, but finally justice was done.  This is a win for the little guy, for the real Americans that believe in America and the rule of law.

[GutterBoy 2,898]

6 hours ago, Pimpadeaux said:

His wife wasn't there to support him. His kids weren't there to support him. His own family doesn't support and care about him. He is twisting in the wind. He is desperate, crazy, convicted and alone.

Not exactly presidential material here, to say the least.

Two of his sons were there.  How wife and daughter were not. They clearly don't support his behavior.  What we discovered through testimony is what we assumed, the marriage is a lie. They don't even share the same bedroom and barely see each other.

[GutterBoy 2,898]

Look, Maga idiots, I know you're uncomfortable. Things don't add up. You're conflicted. What you feel is COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. I'll be straight with you:   He was never a builder. He was never competent. He was never "one of you." He is a lifelong criminal whose only skills are committing the con, selling the grift, engineering the fraud, and avoiding accountability. And "The Apprentice" was a reality show.  
Stop the defiance and come back to the light. Open your minds to truth, however unpleasant. And truth is, you feel uncomfortable because you've been played.

Stop feeling like you have to keep defending the indefensible.  Let it go. Embrace America and freedom and your fellow Americans.

Time for a new outlook on life.  Accept the loss and move on and be better.

[supermike80 1,803]

Sooooo....can the liberals now dispense with the "Trump will destroy the rhetoric" BS.  He was convicted of a felony in a court of law.  Seems the system works.  I absolutely DO NOT want to hear DeNiro ramble on anymore about that

[jonmx 2,424]

1 hour ago, GutterBoy said:

Look, Maga idiots, I know you're uncomfortable. Things don't add up. You're conflicted. What you feel is COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. I'll be straight with you:   He was never a builder. He was never competent. He was never "one of you." He is a lifelong criminal whose only skills are committing the con, selling the grift, engineering the fraud, and avoiding accountability. And "The Apprentice" was a reality show.  
Stop the defiance and come back to the light. Open your minds to truth, however unpleasant. And truth is, you feel uncomfortable because you've been played.

Stop feeling like you have to keep defending the indefensible.  Let it go. Embrace America and freedom and your fellow Americans.

Time for a new outlook on life.  Accept the loss and move on and be better.

Fock off buttboy.  I have challenged everyone in this thread to identify what the underlying crime was.  So far zero.  Zero.  Nothing.  Nada.  There is no crime identified that legally makes this a felony.  The corrupt judge tipped the scales with fraudulant jury instructions..

 

[Sean Mooney 1,937]

There is a time in American history where an event like this would've happened and commoners from both sides would've looked at it and said "Good. You rich a-holes aren't above the law."

Now half the country looks at it and says "MAH PRESIDENT !!! DIS IS RIGGED!!" While the other half says "Democracy is saved!" as if it were ever in trouble. 

And if this had happened to Biden half the country would be burning incense in Times Square while sucking back 10 dollar Starbucks coffees crying and saying "WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!?!?" While the other half would be saying "SERVES HIM RIGHT! SOME 70 YEAR OLD JUDGE AND A VILLAIN OUT OF A LIFETIME MOVIE  ON DA FOX NEWS TOLD ME HE WAS DA BAD GUY!!"

[BeachGuy23 642]

1 hour ago, GutterBoy said:

Look, Maga idiots, I know you're uncomfortable. Things don't add up. You're conflicted. What you feel is COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. I'll be straight with you:   He was never a builder. He was never competent. He was never "one of you." He is a lifelong criminal whose only skills are committing the con, selling the grift, engineering the fraud, and avoiding accountability. And "The Apprentice" was a reality show.  
Stop the defiance and come back to the light. Open your minds to truth, however unpleasant. And truth is, you feel uncomfortable because you've been played.

Stop feeling like you have to keep defending the indefensible.  Let it go. Embrace America and freedom and your fellow Americans.

Time for a new outlook on life.  Accept the loss and move on and be better.

The one smart thing Trump did was figure out how to manipulate the dumbest, most aggrieved due to their own failures, and most gullible people in this country.

Got to give him credit for becoming king of the retards. 

[BeachGuy23 642]

1 minute ago, jonmx said:

Fock off buttboy.  I have challenged everyone in this thread to identify what the underlying crime was.  So far zero.  Zero.  Nothing.  Nada.  There is no crime identified that legally makes this a felony.  The corrupt judge tipped the scales with fraudulant jury instructions..

 

We literally posted the statute multiple times you orange nosed, Trump bootlicking, CT moron. 

You're just too stupid to understand it.  It's not like you're bigly educated or anything which explains why you're a CT moron. 

[jonmx 2,424]

1 minute ago, Sean Mooney said:

There is a time in American history where an event like this would've happened and commoners from both sides would've looked at it and said "Good. You rich a-holes aren't above the law."

The commoners are looking up and seeing the authoritarian bastards are abusing the legal system to destroy democracy in a lame attempt to silence their voices.   The commoners are rising up and uniting with Trump to destroy the authoritarians and their bootlicking cucks..

[jonmx 2,424]

3 minutes ago, BeachGuy23 said:

The one smart thing Trump did was figure out how to manipulate the dumbest, most aggrieved due to their own failures, and most gullible people in this country.

Got to give him credit for becoming king of the retards. 

Oh the irony, you dumfuk.  You know this case is a fraud. 

[BeachGuy23 642]

3 minutes ago, Sean Mooney said:

There is a time in American history where an event like this would've happened and commoners from both sides would've looked at it and said "Good. You rich a-holes aren't above the law."

Now half the country looks at it and says "MAH PRESIDENT !!! DIS IS RIGGED!!" While the other half says "Democracy is saved!" as if it were ever in trouble. 

And if this had happened to Biden half the country would be burning incense in Times Square while sucking back 10 dollar Starbucks coffees crying and saying "WHAT ABOUT TRUMP!?!?" While the other half would be saying "SERVES HIM RIGHT! SOME 70 YEAR OLD JUDGE AND A VILLAIN OUT OF A LIFETIME MOVIE  ON DA FOX NEWS TOLD ME HE WAS DA BAD GUY!!"

This is not a both sides boyo.

Cultist are cucks to Trump like no one has ever cucked for a politician before.

They believe his lies.  They think anything he loses is rigged.  They think anything he wins is legit.  They question established institutions only because he claims they're against him.

Cultist are nothing but unthinking cucks. 

[BeachGuy23 642]

Just now, jonmx said:

Oh the irony, you dumfuk.  You know this case is a fraud. 

What's your background and education boyo?

[Voltaire 5,183]

Here's Ben Shapiro's take. I couldn't agree more.

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Trump Found Guilty. Pray For The Republic.

By  Ben Shapiro

 

•

Late on Thursday afternoon, American democracy came under extraordinary threat when a New York jury, twelve New Yorkers, decided to convict Donald Trump. 

Trump was found guilty by the jury on 34 separate felony counts. If he is sentenced to jail time, that jail time could be up to four years, if all the sentences run concurrently.

It’s a travesty of justice.

This case was a joke from the very beginning. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who set this entire thing up to become more famous and more powerful. Judge Juan Merchan, who basically gave every benefit to the prosecution and whose jury instructions were unprecedented in their willingness to flout the law. 

This was all set up to convict Donald Trump simply so the Democrats could either jail Donald Trump or spend the next few months declaring Donald Trump a convicted felon for purposes of the 2024 election.

The actual methodology by which he was found guilty is utterly uncertain. The reality is there were two crimes alleged: a misdemeanor falsification of business records — which would not have resulted in any possible jail time — but to become a felony that was reliant on other unspecified crimes.

And those crimes could have been a violation of federal finance law — except that Donald Trump clearly did not violate federal finance law. Not only that, the federal government never even bothered to charge him with violating federal finance law, federal election law in 2016. 

Check your calendar. It is currently 2024, and the case that New York just made is effectively that Donald Trump violated election law in 2016 and falsified business records in 2017.

Somehow, despite the fact that the statute of limitations has run already, this is now a class E felony in the state of New York, lengthening the statute of limitations. The number of hoops they had to jump through in order to manufacture this case, is extraordinary. The number of pretzel-like contortions the prosecution had to drag the jury through was extraordinary.

But did any of that matter in the end? Was this ever about the legality of the case?

When the evidence was presented by a porn star, Stormy Daniels, or a convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen — was it ever about any of that? Or was it simply this: If you get Donald Trump in front of a jury of his supposed peers in New York City, one of the bluest places in America, and you charge him with anything, even if you charge him with jaywalking, they will convict him.

We all know the answer to this. This was, in fact, jury nullification, but it is also prosecutorial nullification and judicial nullification of the law.

This particular trial was about getting Donald Trump. So did they get Donald Trump? We have yet to find out. I think the backlash on this is going to be extraordinary, because this is so obviously a manufactured case and so obviously a stupid case that has nothing to do with Donald Trump’s supposed violations of law. I don’t think the American people are going to stand for this.

I think that if Joe Biden believes this is going to somehow redound to his benefit, rather than appearing as a politically-motivated hit job on his political opponent in an unprecedented prosecution of the man most likely to take him out of office in November, I think he’s got another thing coming.

I think this makes Joe Biden the hero in his own mind.

I don’t think the American people are going to react quite that way.

As to what happens next, there is a procedure and there is a process. But it is quite possible Donald Trump could end up in jail because Judge Merchan has been out to get Trump this entire time. From the gag order to the allowance of evidence, Judge Merchan has made clear he wants Donald Trump convicted. I think he’s going to make clear he wants him behind bars.

So what exactly happens next?

There will be a sentencing hearing. That sentencing hearing will be within two or three months of the verdict. So we’re going to get weeks and weeks of speculation about whether Donald Trump is going to go to jail.

Trump’s attorneys presumably will attempt to appeal to the judge and hope to postpone the sentencing beyond the election; Merchan is almost certainly not going to go along with that, because the reason he has structured this trial in this way is to convict Donald Trump and put him behind bars, or at least sentence him, prior to the election.

Trump is not going to be dragged to jail today. That’s not the way this works, because it’s a nonviolent felony. He will not be detained pre-sentencing or forced to post bail, in all likelihood. Instead, in the next few weeks, he’ll be dragged over to that dingy probation office at the New York City Courthouse.

The court could agree to stay Trump’s sentence pending an appeal. That process would last beyond the November 5 presidential election.

But again, I highly doubt they are going to stay Trump’s sentence pending the appeal. The only plausibility there is that if there were a sentence that were so short that it would actually be shorter than the appeals process itself, maybe you delay the sentencing until after the appellate process goes forward.

Merchan’s not going to do that, given everything we know about Merchan. It is highly likely Merchan will move forward with the sentencing hearing.

Merchan could impose a financial penalty, require him to do community service, undergo counseling. He could also impose home confinement, which would mean that Donald Trump would basically be confined to doing events in and around Mar-A-Lago in Florida.

It’s also possible that he could just throw him in jail. And no one knows what the hell happens then.

The Secret Service has been gaming out this possibility for months. If he ends up in prison, the Secret Service would have to screen his food and his personal items and watch him with a detail of agents 24 hours a day. The agents would be armed.

All of this is insane. The fact that we are even considering this is totally and utterly insane. We keep being told by the media that Merchan is unlikely to sentence him to any jail time, because he wouldn’t want to be the man who puts the chief Republican candidate in prison. I think precisely the reverse. I think Democrats truly believe that if they throw Trump in jail that the American people will surrender to the Biden administration.

This is a thwarting of basic standards of democracy; To take a political opponent on trumped-up charges, find him guilty, and then throw him in jail for purposes of the election, is insanity. It is third-world crap. It is insanity. 

And that’s presumably what we are talking about right now when we talk about the idea that a politically-motivated Manhattan D.A. could go into his job with the purpose of convicting Donald Trump.

That’s what we are talking about. Third-world nonsense. Not only that, the sentencing is going to be at least partially dependent on Trump’s attitude. So in the probation hearing, there are a few different factors that are going to be brought into play. His age, his health, his likelihood to commit an offense. But one of the factors is remorse.

You can see why that is. Normally in a criminal case, if somebody commits a really dire crime, they show no remorse at all. You can see why people would want them to be in jail. But in this particular case, it’s a catch-22 for Trump. If he shows remorse for a crime he did not commit, then Biden hammers him on that the rest of the election cycle.

If he doesn’t show remorse, then Merchan says he committed a crime: “I had to put a gag order on him and then he didn’t show remorse. I’m throwing him in jail.”

There is a very real possibility here that come November 5, Donald Trump is sitting in Rikers while the American people are voting. And if that’s the case, the American people should vote for him all the more, because this was a politically-motivated prosecution. 

The evidence was not there to support a conviction. In fact, the charges were not even there to support a conviction. That’s why Merchan had to come up with this bizarre theory whereby four jurors could vote for one underlying crime, four jurors could vote for another underlying crime, and the last four could vote for a third underlying crime, and they could combine all of those into one giant felony that would serve as the predicate for the class E felony for falsifying business records. 

There’s a high probability this will be reversed, either in the state or in the federal system. It’s certainly a violation of law in the state. It’s probably a violation of law federally, because using the Federal Elections Funding Act to convict a guy in state court is bizarre.

The Democrats just set the country on fire. 

The consequences of this are extraordinarily dire, because play this one all the way out: Let’s say for a second that Donald Trump is sent to jail by Merchan. Let’s say that while he is in jail, the election goes forth. And under those conditions, he then loses the election. 

If you think he was claiming rigging back in 2020, wait until you hear about 2024 when the Democrats charged him with a bunch of garbage and then got 12 like-minded jurors to throw him in jail under the auspices of a glory-seeking judge, and took him completely off the campaign trail and smeared him as a felon in advance of the election.

You’ve got all the same people crying, “Trump will be a tyrant. Trump will undermine the rule of law. We cannot have a country with Donald Trump, who will certainly destroy democracy.”

It is hard for me to think of anything less democratic than trumping up a charge on your political opponent to jail him during an election cycle. Especially when the candidate on your side is losing, which is what Joe Biden is doing right now.

Where do we go from here as a country? The polling shows that a huge percentage of Americans will not change their vote based on that. One of the things that makes the case so unbelievably astonishing is that this is an election that’s going to come down to tens of thousands of votes in a handful of swing states.

Right now, Donald Trump is leading outside the margin of error in Nevada, which means all he has to do is win Michigan or Pennsylvania and the election is over. The election could easily come down to 2000-4000 votes in one swing state. If Donald Trump were to lose in November while he’s serving prison time on a trumped-up charge, the response in the United States will be absolutely explosive.

You can only talk about an illegitimate president at that point. The American people will see a Democrat elected under those auspices as illegitimate. There’s no other way to even see that.

Biden is presumably going to make comments about the law having been done, and that no one is above the law, while simultaneously the DOJ attempted to broker a deal to save his own son from jail. He himself was spared a prosecution on mishandling of classified documents because he was supposedly a doddering elderly man, and he’s going to lecture us about how the justice system just worked.

It just did the reverse.

Pray for the Republic.

Because something truly terrible just happened in New York City.