Donald Trump was sentenced in New York on Friday, capping a long and, at times, embarrassing ordeal that saw him become the first ex-president to be criminally convicted.
Donald Trump was sentenced in New York on Friday, capping a long and, at times, embarrassing ordeal that saw him become the first ex-president to be criminally convicted.
If only there had been a significant period of time in which he was a private citizen.
What a fucking farce. I hate these people. The hand wringing from these intentionally ineffectual taint lickers is worse than Trump’s actions imo. The social contract is dead and so is justice.
I guess I don’t understand their reasoning at all here. Trump is currently a private citizen and the entire point of our checks and balances system is the judicial branch is supposed to not give a fuck about whats going on in the executive branch and issue rulings on what is in front of them.
Nevermind the fact that the whole “you can’t prosecute a sitting president” thing is entirely based on a fucking post-it note written by some aide trying to protect another criminal Republican president from prosecution. The fact that anyone has taken that seriously shows you how desperate they are to find any reason to keep themselves above reproach. The simple truth underpinning all of this bullshit is that they have no intention of holding the rich and powerful to account under any circumstances.
He still is a private citizen for the next week.
The courts seem to disagree.
You can’t have your own facts. The court chickened out, and USA is obviously not a nation of law, but of privilege.
I mean I agree that Merchan was comically lenient here, but it’s not his fault that American voters re-elected Trump. Nobody knows what it means to try to jail a sitting president, nobody. The system is designed in a way that assumes that American voters would never vote for a convicted criminal. That isn’t the case, so the whole system fails.
If I assume that everyone gets at least three years after they commit a felony before legal proceedings begin (not including the time in which he was president the first time) then you might have a point. However, they don’t and that’s a pretty fucking important detail. If Garland and the rest of the legal system didn’t drag their feet for so damn long then this could have been wrapped up well before the election cycle even started. Instead they waited long enough to give themselves a semi-plausible, but still utterly ridiculous, reason for doing nothing. I have a hard time believing that’s not what they wanted the whole time.
But we could have known. Now it’s still another fucking hole in the law for a fascist to exploit later.