News @lemmy.world Beetlejuice001 @lemmy.wtf 6 mo. ago

Former President Trump is found guilty in historic New York criminal case

www.npr.org /2024/05/30/nx-s1-4977352/trump-trial-verdict

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New York Judge Juan Merchan set sentencing for July 11.
- I appreciate you
- Maybe the judge chose free Slurpee day because if Trump says he can't attend, there will be video evidence of him going to 7-eleven to the contrary
I’ll only believe it when he’s in jail. Which there is a possibility of now. Has anyone noticed he is scowling in every picture the past few months? He thinks since his mug shot he is Al Capone or something. It seems in almost every picture I can remember he’s smiling ear to ear, like a pig in shit. He’s a snake oil conman not a gangster
- There's nothing to believe or not believe. This is pure fact. Donald Trump is now a convicted felon
  
  34 time felon. The "christian" party of law and order is going to have a lot to answer for voting for a cheating husband, lier, and now a felon x34. Just to name enough that if it was a Democrat the republikkklows would have pitch forks and fire ready while losing their fucking minds.
  
  Exactly. Even if he gets an appeal, even if he wins such an appeal, even if his sentence gets commuted or otherwise obstructed or diluted, we can truthfully refer to him forever and always as a convicted felon on 34 counts.
- There is no way he's going to jail over this. I mean I wish, but I don't think that sentence would be consistent with similar cases. This is just the appetizer. He needs to be found guilty in a case with teeth like the classified documents.
  
  There haven't been any similar cases to this
  
  He absolutely still won't see prison, but it's not because of sentencing guidelines
  
  Best outcome would be if Merchan gives him 4 years of probation, just in case he wins the election. That turns into prison time if he commits another crime.
- Which there is a possibility of now.
  
  0% chance he sees the inside of a cell, don't get your hopes up. Not from this case.
- He's the Thomas Midgley Jr of politics, a bumbling harbinger of doom, another unheeded cautionary tale in the litany of unintended consequences we call history.
This is all turning into the Trump Presidential Circus Parade to the National Election

American politics are a joke at this point and the whole world is wondering what's going on under the Red, White and Blue Big Top Circus Show this week. The tickets are expensive, the chairs are uncomfortable, the food will make you sick, the shows are shitty, it makes children cry, the clowns scare people and it's all powered by a fundraising Christian preacher just outside the tent.
- It won’t be a joke if he gets elected. Nobody will be laughing.
  
  Putin will be.
  
  The half the country that elected him will be, as that's the only thing this guy's offering at this point; laughing at the other half of the country you hate as they get mad at him for destroying the country.
- They've been a joke, ever since Reagan.
worst witchhunt in history which is saying something since the last 100 worst witchhunts in history have taken place in the last 8 years /s
- What kind of world do we live in where you can't even commit a felony without being accused of committing a felony? Really says a lot about our society.
  
  I red this comment whith DT voice
How many hours total did the jury deliberate?
- Someone in another comment said just under 12 hours.
  
  Thank you
  
  Couldn't they do it in like 12 minutes, though?

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