Donald Trump has been found guilty of using a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
The verdict came after a jury deliberated for less than twelve hours in the unprecedented first criminal trial against a US president. It marks a perilous political moment for Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination, whose poll numbers have remained unchanged throughout the trial but could tank at any moment.
So the Republican nominee is a thirty-four time convicted felon?
I guess I can be president too someday.
Convicted felons can run for office. They just can’t vote in the election.
I desperately want him to lose Florida by one vote. His own.
That’s only true if they have not had their civil rights restored, and many do.
Yup you just have to go on TV, act like an asshole constantly, and gain a cult like following from the dumbest Americans imaginable.
This dude is such a sleazy scum. Well done republicans you have picked a winner.
From CNN:
Judge Juan Merchan sets a sentencing hearing for July 11 at 10 a.m. ET
Seems like a long delay, is that typical in a high profile case like this?
He has another trial in Florida they had to schedule around.
Its weird that thats going on again, what happened to the indefinite suspension?
Well, you see, he’s got money and a few like-minded friends…
I’m sure this will be endlessly delayed by every kind of legal maneuver possible, and I personally don’t expect the sentence to include prison time, but I don’t care. The motherfucker has been found GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS. That’s good enough for me.
They don’t even have to delay endlessly.
They just need to say it’s all rigged against him, take the presidency and pardon himself and his cronies.
His base thinks falsifying records is “smart” and the banks are dumb for falling for it. They still think he’s a stable genius
He can’t pardon himself from a state crime.
Ha, you say that like laws are gonna matter when he takes office.
President can’t pardon state crimes.
Not with that attitude. You need the ‘tear down the rule of law from the foundation up’ attitude that Trump has.
Cool!
Ice cold
Alright alright alright (read that in Andre 3000’s voice, not Matthew McConaughey’s)
Very cool, and very legal!
I trust the tough on crime Republicans will be appalled and change their vote since they’re so against felons being involved in the democratic process–or are those just the darker-skinned ones it applies to?
(Trump’s) poll numbers have remained unchanged throughout the trial but could tank at any moment.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/nx-s1-4974598/trump-verdict-trial-voters-presidential-election
NPR polling indicates that only a small percentage of Republicans would be affected by a guilty verdict.
11 % of independents said they’d be less likely to vote for Trump.
Small amounts of Republicans would be less likely to vote for Trump with a guilty verdict. I believe that I heard 7% on the radio, but I can’t find a news article to back that up.
That should cost him a few delegates, hopefully.
now what
Another asterisk to add, or at this point one of those other footnote symbols.
We’ll run out of numbers and page room at this rate! We’ll need an encyclopedia worth of books just for the footnotes.
And yet he’ll still get votes.
Whilst I’ve been waiting for this day for ages, it gives me no pleasure to realise it means very little.
Vast amounts of bullshit. From every side.
Edit: are there people out there who don’t think it’ll be a circus? I agree with the verdict 100%, but let’s not kid ourselves. The next few months are going to be ridiculous.
All great people.
I had to Google this to make sure it was real.
Now is he gonna be like Bannon and ignore sentencing because there are no consequences for doing so?
