One show trial down, three more to go. You have every reason to spend the next five months anticipating anything and everything to keep voters from installing Donald Trump back in the White House through a process formerly known in America as a “free and fair election.”
Up to and including assassinating the candidate whom every indicator has winning in November.
The first criminal trial of a US president is now over. And so, perhaps, is millions of people’s faith in the impartiality of the American legal system.
Yesterday in Manhattan, New York City, former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. The origin of this show trial lies with porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had an affair with Trump – which he strenuously denied – and was threatening to go public with her story during the 2016 election campaign. Trump’s then lawyer paid her to stay quiet.
It is not enough, at Trump-deranged MSNBC, that former President Donald Trump has been found guilty in the New York business records trial. MSNBC is now arguing for imprisonment for Trump. “Lock Him Up”, if you will.
Watch as the panel discusses sentencing in the wake of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s press conference
Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in a trial in Manhattan on May 30. Democrats are singing with joy, but it was a truly sad day for America.
This was a prosecution that never would have been brought had the defendant not been Donald Trump, and had Trump not run for reelection in 2024. Rather than prosecuting an obvious crime, prosecutors set out to prosecute a political opponent. And to do so, they invented a criminal theory to pursue.
Former president Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges on Thursday for falsifying business records, but legal experts say the case is far from settled – and unlikely to wrap up before the November election.
Speaking outside the courthouse on Thursday, Trump proclaimed, “This is far from over.”
A lengthy appeals process is likely to begin very soon, says Zack Smith, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Florida and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
The Alvin Bragg trial was everything that Trump warns about.
‘Rigged” is a favorite word of Donald Trump and his allies.
It describes how institutions and processes have been distorted by a progressive elite to tilt the playing field against Trump and his supporters.
On Tuesday, CNN’s Laura Coates failed to understand how actor Robert De Niro’s appearance in New York was a political move by the left. De Niro spoke outside the courthouse as closing arguments in Donald Trump’s trial began. The day before he appeared in New York, he starred in a new Biden Campaign released a new advertisement which criticized Trump.
WTF?
Little Robert De Niro is getting destroyed on X tonight 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/aVighrdg3E
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 29, 2024
Donald J. Trump has been convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his ascent to the White House in 2016, part of a scheme that prosecutors described as a fraud on the American people. He is the first American president to be declared a felon, a stain he will carry as he seeks to regain the presidency.
Twitter #Verdict
Trump responds to the politically motivated corrupt witch hunt they called a "trial" in which he was found guilty.
Does this make you want to vote for him more or less?pic.twitter.com/0VHh5Ctxoy
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 30, 2024
To limit and undo that damage and restore the rule of law, Republicans may have no choice but to respond in kind.
Now that the jury holds the fate of former president Donald Trump in its hands, we can pause to more broadly assess the meaning of his trials. Observers (this one included) have followed every cross-examination tactic and surprise witness but at the cost of overlooking the trial’s larger blow to our political and constitutional norms.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has submitted an official misconduct complaint to the New York State Unified Court System regarding the allegedly “random” selection of Juan Merchan as the judge over the ongoing case against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, she announced Tuesday evening.
Andy has written another great two-parter on the evidentiary bait-and-switch that Judge Merchan has used in the Trump hush-money trial to allow prosecutors to tell the jury about guilty pleas and settlements for federal campaign-finance-law violations. The prosecution wants these before the jury for the purpose of convincing the jury that the payments to Stormy Daniels were illegal under the federal campaign-finance laws, and thus that Donald Trump knew he was covering up those crimes when he engaged in falsifying business records.
Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend was one, long primal scream of frustration over the failure of voters to understand – and be duly stampeded into supporting Biden – by how dangerous Donald Trump supposedly was.
Much attention was paid to a video that was briefly reposted to Trump’s social media feed that included, in blurry letters, a mention of a “united Reich,” which was taken by the panel to reflect Trump’s plan to replicate in America something akin to Nazi Germany.
Ouch!
New Yorker to De Niro: “You’re trash! Your mom should have swallowed!” 🤣🤣🤣
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 28, 2024
The Democrats parade a washed up actor, Robert De Niro, outside of Trump's trial, a man who has spewed vile, pejorative-filled poison at Trump multiple times, and now he's upset Trump supporters are shouting at him in protest?!
De Niro is a unhinged, entitled maniac. pic.twitter.com/Ar9A0f60dS
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 28, 2024
h/t Mauser
After more than five weeks, countless hours of testimony and a mountain of documents, New York Justice Juan Merchan will soon instruct a panel of 12 New Yorkers to make a historic decision: whether Donald Trump is guilty or not guilty of felony charges.
After both sides make their final pitches to jurors on Tuesday, Justice Juan Merchan will deliver deliberation instructions, going over each of the charges and explaining the elements of the alleged crime. While they can be technical and dry, the instructions are important guidelines for jurors’ deliberations.
Much of the media analysis of former President Donald Trump’s visit to the South Bronx centers around whether it was electorally savvy or good campaign strategy. Little has been said about the outbreak of bigotry vomited over the airwaves subsequent to the rally.
