Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech
Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech
Donald J. Trump, the first U.S. president to become a felon, excoriated prosecutors and the judge in his criminal case and ran through a litany of false statements as he spoke to reporters and a small crowd of vetted supporters at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.
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He faces probation or up to four years in prison.
It's been reported that only 10% of felons are given jail time for similar convictions. You have to wonder if such remarks after his conviction, indicating he's learned absolutely nothing, may lead a judge towards the harsher punishment.
Also, let's take a moment to applaud Alvin L. Bragg.
Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, risked his reputation by indicting Mr. Trump in a case that some prominent Democrats said wasn’t strong enough to have brought against a former president. Instead, Mr. Bragg cemented his place in history as the first prosecutor to convict a former president.
Bragg should get a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts.
I remember when we thought we were going to make statues of Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill because we once thought he was brave for taking on Trump.
Let's maybe wait to see if Trump actually gets sentenced with an appropriate punishment first before jumping the gun with Bragg.
When the time is right, I'd suggest we rename fort liberty after him.
New fort same as the old fort. I like the cut of your jib cully.
The democrats are such goddamn pussies. They need to wake up and fight the fascism before their Inaction destroys this country.
I hate the rhetoric that we can't do anything because it would make Trump a martyr.
So it's either let him do whatever he wants or he's a martyr. I don't know why they see this as a lose lose situation. Hold the fucker accountable for his actions or he'll keep doing shitty things. It's their fault that it's gone on as long as it has.
If anything you would expect someone who was trying to get elected (when the crimes were committed) to be held to higher standards than most and to be dealt a harsher sentence.
Even if he's just given probation, you can pretty much guarantee that he'll violate the terms within minutes.
He won’t go to prison, but there’s a decent chance he’ll get home confinement for a few months.
Nah, I think it'll just be probation with generous terms. If they put him on house arrest, he'll challenge that saying it's political and it will prevent him from campaigning. It'll be easier to just slap him with a "you have to report your travel plans" and a few hours of community service. He deserves much more, but it'll cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and take years if they actually try to punish him. I'll call it a win if we can always refer to him as "convicted felon DT" and let him walk. That will give more ammo for harsher sentences for the federal cases.
Is there any actual weight to this talk of campaign interference? I heard it somewhere else, too. It just seems absurd to me that that would be considered at all. Like if I did a few felonies but was like: your honor, I've got to water my plants. so you see - I can't do any prison time.
a few hours of community service
Please, please, please, just let me see video of Trump serving and cleaning tables in a soup kitchen in Harlem.
Plus he's likely to have a probation officer either way that he will regularly have to check in with. Hopefully he has to take drug tests too