'Old and decrepit' Trump rant exposed him as 'a shadow of what he was four years ago'
'Old and decrepit' Trump rant exposed him as 'a shadow of what he was four years ago'
Take it with a grain of salt since the description is coming from an MSNBC host.
But she's right in that, when it comes to deciding sentencing, this will not do him any favors.
Maximum sentence is 4 years per count +$5,000 fine.
So he'll likely get multiple 4 year sentences, served concurrently, and $5K x 34... $170,000 fine.
He'll never see the inside of a cell. The legal system protects shit like him.
That's expected when you live in a corporatocracy masquerading as a democracy.
They’re also a nonviolent class E felonies. I’d love to see him behind bars, but there’s no reason to expect a prison sentence. It’s possible, but not probable.
Pipe dreams. It’s extremely rare for prison sentences to be imposed for white collar, non-violent e felonies like this.
Merchan isn’t going to impose a shit load of time just because people want it- that would pretty quickly get over turned by higher courts.
Most likely the best we can hope for is house arrest; the only reason we have a hope of jail time at all is that trumps behavior during and leading up to the trial (inciting his mob to threaten violence, refusal to abide gag orders.)
In some regards the house arrest might be politically the best for Trump. He can still broadcast his stupidity.
Again, look at the other people involved. Cohen got 3 years for his part in it, Alan Weisselberg, while not convicted for this, got 5 months for his role in another Trump ordered scheme.
So, yeah, it does happen for white collar crime. When you consider 34 counts and his lack of contrition, I can see the Judge hitting him with the max, which, granted, is only 4 years.
A part of me hopes they fine him $130k. Fining him the exact amount he paid Stormy Daniels somehow feels like an even bigger "fuck you" than the maximum possible financial penalty.
4 years, one for each year he was president.
EDIT: begin the "four more years!" chanting
An analysis I read said NY almost never imprisons a first time fraud offender. If true then it's pretty unlikely he will be imprisoned at all.
On one hand you're right about first time offenders, but on the other he's made it clear monetary fines don't dissuade him (e.g. the ten he got for his truth social attacks on the judge and co.) which could in turn influence the decision regarding jailtime.
Cohen was a first time offender and did 3 years for the same crime.
What if they commit fraud 36 more times? How about then?
I believe the maximum total is 4 years, not cumulative. And given that it’s his first conviction, and he has a campaign to run, the chance he’ll spend any time in jail at all is slim.
*edit: OP mentioned concurrently, so they said the same thing. Reading comprehension at 8 AM not booted up yet.
Fat old convicted criminal looks tired.
More at 11.
Convicted felon Trump?
Prisoner Elect.
Four years ago he was a deranged fascist with limited mental faculties. I don't think that dial has really moved.
He looks like the Hamburglar chose the wrong grail.
He was only ever a shadow of what you thought he was, that's been the whole point the entire time, you are chasing shadows
Now he's less more like a lighting artifact that stupid people think is a UFO.
A shadow of what he was 4 years ago?
So a steaming pile of shit is now... Like dried turd?
Four years ago?
I can't tell the difference between his insane statements today, and his insane statements from 8+ years ago.
"They're the same picture"
Dude is on so many drugs. It's like that episode of Simpsons when mr burns sees the doctor and the doctor tries to push a bunch of plushies through the door
Indestructible...
Less of a crazy dictator wannabe? Less of a Putin pleaser?
"Always has been"
And yet he’s still more likely to win than Biden.
That's the power of cult of personality, and the weird idea of being dependant on a few "swing states".
How come? He had a lot of sleep in NY.
It's a Dr Who reference (which is itself a Thatcher reference)
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193743/how-did-the-doctor-take-harriet-jones-down-in-the-christmas-invasion
One word. No, six. I could end your career in six words.