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Convicted Felon Donald Trump
May. 31st, 2024 09:58 amMultiple thoughts on the conviction of Donald Trump as announced everywhere.
1) Donald Trump is a native New Yorker, he was a resident there during the relevant periods and his business is headquartered there. It's entirely fair and proper for him to be tried there for violations of New York State law.
2) Had Trump simply paid out of his own pocket or listed the expense on his business records as "for non-disclosure agreement" none of this would have gone to trial. But they didn't, and Michael Cohen, who executed the payments, went to jail for it. Now Trump finds out if he will go to jail.
3) Regarding the trial (somebody else's words) "Michael Cohen is a scumbag, and Trump hired Cohen to be his on-call scumbag, so you can't believe the documented evidence that Trump had Cohen be his scumbag in this one instance, because when Cohen got caught and couldn't wriggle out of trouble he confessed to said scumbaggery."
4) Another reminder for people complaining about political procsecutions - the sitting President's son goes on trial in July and a sitting US Democratic Senator is under indictment for bribery. We try politicians for crimes all the time. Also, no Democratic politicians are running in front of the nearest microphone to defend either individual or call the trials rigged.
5) Regarding "rigged" trials - had this happened in Russia, Trump would have been tried, convicted, imprisoned and dead by now. Unless of course the wings of his plane fell of in mid-flight or he fell out of a window in Trump Tower.
6) Yes, it sets a bad precedent to try a former President for a felony. It's also a bad idea to not charge former Presidents for crimes, especially those committed while not in office. Sometimes the choice isn't between bad and good, it's between bad and worse.
1) Donald Trump is a native New Yorker, he was a resident there during the relevant periods and his business is headquartered there. It's entirely fair and proper for him to be tried there for violations of New York State law.
2) Had Trump simply paid out of his own pocket or listed the expense on his business records as "for non-disclosure agreement" none of this would have gone to trial. But they didn't, and Michael Cohen, who executed the payments, went to jail for it. Now Trump finds out if he will go to jail.
3) Regarding the trial (somebody else's words) "Michael Cohen is a scumbag, and Trump hired Cohen to be his on-call scumbag, so you can't believe the documented evidence that Trump had Cohen be his scumbag in this one instance, because when Cohen got caught and couldn't wriggle out of trouble he confessed to said scumbaggery."
4) Another reminder for people complaining about political procsecutions - the sitting President's son goes on trial in July and a sitting US Democratic Senator is under indictment for bribery. We try politicians for crimes all the time. Also, no Democratic politicians are running in front of the nearest microphone to defend either individual or call the trials rigged.
5) Regarding "rigged" trials - had this happened in Russia, Trump would have been tried, convicted, imprisoned and dead by now. Unless of course the wings of his plane fell of in mid-flight or he fell out of a window in Trump Tower.
6) Yes, it sets a bad precedent to try a former President for a felony. It's also a bad idea to not charge former Presidents for crimes, especially those committed while not in office. Sometimes the choice isn't between bad and good, it's between bad and worse.