Medlar on 3/1/2025 at 22:15
Apparently Trump is due to be sentenced for a sex crime before his inauguration. This story just keeps ongoing.
demagogue on 4/1/2025 at 00:50
We've known that date's been coming for a while now. If Trump hadn't had won the presidency, there's a good chance he may have had a short 1-2 year sentence; it's a relatively low-level felony and first time offense, although he was the opposite of remorseful, relentlessly attacking the judge and jury and calling the court and judgment a sham.
BTW, it was fraud for falsifying business records, to conceal his hush money payments to the porn star he bonked from the disclosure requirements for using campaign financing, and his defense isn't even denying that he falsified the records, only that there wasn't an underlying fraud. Basically he wants to argue that the obligation to disclose spending over a certain threshold shouldn't include the obligation to disclose spending over a certain threshold. Tens of millions of maga fans are ready to die on that hill more vigorously than any political position they've ever held in their shallow lives. (99)
Anyway, the judge has already announced the sentence is nothing given the circumstances. It's not vacated; he's still guilty of a felony; he still won't be able to vote in Florida, which forbids felons from voting; although he can still appeal, but he'll lose again because, I mean, the defense is about the opposite of "what the text clearly says on its face" as a defense can get. But all in all, there won't be a sentence, so it's a nothing burger.
What was really important were the other upcoming cases scheduled for this year for pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to overturn Georgia's election results and inciting the 1/6 insurrection. But those have basically been the equivalent of tolled. They were technically dismissed, which he & his minions are saying means they were always witchunt sham prosecutions from the start. But it was without prejudice, which means the moment he's out of office they can and hopefully will continue from where they ended. Those are serious crimes that would carry serious prison sentences with them; his guilt is even clearer than the first case, and it's a shame those weren't the one accelerated instead of the porn star records falsification case.
Starker on 4/1/2025 at 01:08
I don't really understand what the Justice Department was dallying around for. We get constantly told that liberals have hijacked the US justice system into prosecuting conservatives for their crimes, but it seems awful lot like they simply let him off the hook.
Nicker on 10/1/2025 at 17:59
A few decades too late.
Maybe now we can refuse him entry into Canada.
At least Karen Pence showed some spine, unlike her husband, snubbing the Trumps at Jimmy Carter's funeral.
lowenz on 10/1/2025 at 17:59
"Our fellowN Donny"
demagogue on 10/1/2025 at 18:05
At least there's a data point to counter the ridiculous and incorrect "Trump isn't a convicted felon because he hasn't been sentenced" argument we've seen ad naseum in the way magats have defended the guy following Trump's conviction. I doubt they'll want to admit that he's now a convicted felon even under their own conceded argument, so of course they'll instantly and completely forget it was ever said and just say the whole thing is a witch hunt bar none, all courts, all judges, all juries, all laws, it's all one big sham against Trump, and that's where we are now.
heywood on 10/1/2025 at 20:07
Feels like an empty symbolic victory. I still think it was a bit of a stretch to pursue a felony charge for hush money. The classified documents case and the Georgia case should have been slam dunks. But he gets off because Fani Willis had an affair and Aileen Cannon's incomprehensible rulings. Cannon really needs to be impeached and I hope the movement for that grows. John Roberts made my blood boil by complaining about criticism and protest undermining the trust and independence of the judiciary. If you want to know who is undermining the trust and independence of the judiciary, look in the mirror!
Nicker on 10/1/2025 at 20:51
Looks like the USA has four years to counter this threat before it becomes institutionalized, or should I cay, Constitutionalized?
heywood on 10/1/2025 at 20:57
How are folks in Canada responding to Trump's trolls? Is anybody taking it seriously there? We aren't taking it seriously here.
Greenland on the other hand...
