Trump verdict in

Yeesh. I think one would have to be insane to send money to a guy who has his own airliner. 

DH was talking to one of his Trumper friends on speaker today and he asked what his friend thought about Trump getting 34 guilty verdicts, and the dude was like, “Whatever. They’re just going to appeal it and in six months it will all go away. The whole thing was a sham and there was no way it wasn’t going to be a guilty verdict where they held that trial.”   Um, okay dude.

Then he continued on about the Dems “forgiving all those student loans” and DH corrected him saying, “You do realize that the loans that were forgiven was the excessive interest people still owed long after they had already paid back the principal amount plus some interest?” His response to that was, “Yeah but the taxpayers are going to end up footing that bill regardless.” 🙄 It’s so not worth even arguing with people who are running with their own predetermined set of “facts” ugh.

Some people who have been defendants who have appeared in Judge Merchan's courtroom...

The Daily Beast recently interviewed several past defendants who Merchan sentenced in previous trials, and virtually all of them agreed that the judge who presided over Trump's first criminal trial was tough, but fair and even-keeled. One defendant was Andrew Rossig, who was sentenced over a BASE jumping incident in which he parachuted from the top of the One World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan (built over the original site of the Twin Towers) in 2013.

While Rossig and his two co-defendants were acquitted of felony burglary charges, they were found guilty of two misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment. Merchan said the men "sullied the memories" of 9/11 victims, who jumped to their deaths on September 11, 2001 "not for sport but because they had to." While prosecutors asked for 60 days incarceration, Merchan said jailing the men wouldn't "serve the best interests of our community" and sentenced Rossig to 200 hours of community service.

"I, myself, was pretty quiet and just tried to keep my mouth shut and be apologetic," Rossig told the Beast. "It seemed to me that [Merchan] was like, if you at least seem apologetic for the crime you did, he would be more lenient. I don’t ever remember saying to myself, ‘This judge is ridiculous and I‘m going to jail for the rest of my life.’ It was more like, ‘Treat him with respect and he’ll be fair.’"

"“I didn't feel any bias in there, like he took it personally or anything,” he added. “He wasn’t like, ‘Oh you guys were so reckless and you deserve to be punished for what you did. There was none of that. It was ‘just the facts.’”
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Defendant Anna Gristina (also known as the "Soccer Mom Madam") was sentenced to five years of probation and time served — she had already spent four months in New York City's Rikers Island jail — for felony promotion of prostitution, even though the charge carried a maximum sentence of seven years. Whole Gristina said she wasn't personally a fan of Merchan and that the ordeal left her "emotionally drained and financially drained," that the sentence was also "the first vacation [she]'d had in 40 years."

www.rawstory.com/merhcan-defendants-toughness-sentencing-depends-respect/

I bet this person once joked about drinking liberal tears. Remember when those "hilarious" jokes were all the rage with MAGA crowd?
I can't believe anyone could even make that comparison. His followers all need psychiatric help.

They had an isolation trailer ready for him out on Rikers... Easily secured with he in one bed room, secret service in another, both attached to a smallish 'interrogation' type room, table and chairs, to be used for whatever!!

Not exactly.  The charges are related but there were 34 separate charges.  There were 11 individual checks, so 11 charges for the checks alone.  The AP article has the information on each of the 34 charges.  The convictions on all of the charges is more likely a reflection of the amount of evidence provided - documents, witnesses etc.

www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts

Invoices for legal services
Guilty on 11 of 11 charges

Checks paid for legal services
Guilty on 11 of 11 charges

Ledger entries for legal expenses
Guilty on 12 of 12 charges


apnews.com/the-charges-against-donald-trump-0000018fc468d0cbad8fcdfc93480000

Invoice
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust
Guilty
The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.

Just one opinion, but a fairly convincing one from someone who attended the trial on why Trump was convicted on all counts.



evidence


Lisa Rubin @lawofruby
ICYMI, FIRST to @msnbc
Think Trump was convicted without sufficient evidence? Think again. The Manhattan DA’s closing argument slides highlight just how much evidence of Trump’s guilt the DA compiled & presented:


www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/manhattan-da-bragg-closing-slides-trump-rcna157057

Rather, it’s because the evidence collected and then presented at trial by the DA was not only extensive, but was interwoven together by the DA’s team to devastating effect.

How do I know? In part, it’s because I attended the trial all day, every day. But more importantly, it’s because I have now obtained — and am sharing with you — the 400-plus slides that the Manhattan DA’s office used in its hourslong closing argument to the jury.

From his own words, whether written or recorded, and his signature, on the one hand, to his pattern of phone calls right as other significant developments and communications unfolded, it was the weight and quality of the evidence that did Trump in with the 12 jurors.

Collectively, the slides illustrate the breadth and depth of the DA’s evidence. From his own words, whether written or recorded, and his signature, on the one hand, to his pattern of phone calls right as other significant developments and communications unfolded, it was the weight and quality of the evidence that did Trump in with the 12 jurors.

At least we would know his 'running mate' would be reasonably vetted!!