On September 18 — just 48 days before the election — former President Donald Trump is due to appear in Manhattan, where he will be sentenced for 34 felony convictions. Some criminal justice experts believe the ex-president could very well end up behind bars.Newsweek reported that University of Calif...
I think it’s a larger chance than most people think. Yes it’s a first offense but it’s not an offense that should be taken lightly. He has a history of crime now after being found guilty of fraud and civilly liable for sexual assault(rape).
I see no reason for the judge to go easy on him. He was a PITA and didn’t follow gag orders, he’s guilty of a degree of fraud we haven’t seen in a long time, and that fraud impacted an election of the United States in a very large way, leading to uninformed voters and hid a scandal from the public.
The judge should bury him. At least give him 2-3 months in jail. If this comes without jail time, it will be a huge injustice to everyone. To know that you can lie to the American voting public and commit fraud from the White House and get away with a slap on the wrist would do great damage to this country (nothing new tho). Hope the judge does the right thing.
I feel like it's a primatologists scenario now, where all the top primatologists are like "We have to stand back and let them do this, otherwise it's really bad for their society" ...and the wealthy corrupt Zoo owner is still like "but he's my top attraction, I could never let them kill old poo flinger".
Multiple convictions is a whole other thing. Right now, he's a "first time offender." But if he's a convicted as a felon I think other cases will go differently.
Really, given that he violated his gag order multiple times and threatened the judge, the jury, and the witnesses, Merchan should absolutely give him some prison time, and point out during sentencing that simply keeping his mouth shut and respecting the process would've resulted in some probation and community service. Most first-time offenders don't get prison time for this, but Trump couldn't stop running his mouth.
Good that you mentioned this. After all that you listed, he still whined that he was being victimized and how he couldn't speak to defend himself. He's doing the same thing with the requests to lay off the personal attacks on kamala and stick to policy from his side. He is indeed scum of the earth, playing the victim. Except scum is nicer.
I'm only hoping that if he's elected he winds up serving the entirety of his term indoors at Mar a Lago and incessantly rages about his ankle bracelet and not being able to play golf
I wouldn't care if he spent the rest of his life in a 5-star resort being waited on hand and foot, if the sentence also included a complete ban from the internet and contact with the media. I don't care if he's living like a fucking king, as long as his toxic rhetoric is cut off. I feel like we can't ever recover from this as a country as long as he's still got a microphone.