Originally published at: Judge Cancels Trump’s New York Hush Money Sentencing - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Donald Trump’s sentencing on 34 felony counts related to his 2016 hush money scheme has been put on indefinite hiatus, a judge ruled on Friday. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan agreed to a request from both parties to cancel the sentencing, which had been scheduled for November 26. The cancellation means that Trump is exceedingly unlikely…
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So trump gets away with 34 felonies…
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“The cancellation means that Trump is exceedingly unlikely to face sentencing over the guilty verdict before he takes office on January 20, 2025. Merchan said in the ruling that he would hear arguments on whether to dismiss the case in light of Trump’s election.”
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I need money… there’s a bank not far away I could rob…
I need a cat image…this otta do…
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evidence relating to a President’s official conduct could not be admitted during a prosecution of unofficial conduct. That could shatter part of the trial, which focused on payments that Trump directed while in office to reimburse Michael Cohen for the hush money scheme.
Looking forward to a future of considerable interesting behavior tagged as unprosecutable official conduct. Money in and (as in this case) money out. Also: violence, baseless prosecutions, elections on hold… it’s all Official Conduct.
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I thought Pluto transiting Aquarius was supposed to make all of this better? /s
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Somewhere Susan Collins is thinking, “I’ll bet this close call will surely teach him a lesson. He can now be trusted.”
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It’s nice to be king.
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Yeah, Where the hell is Nancy Reagans astrologer to guide the country through this mess?
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He’s still a felon.
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When youre famous, the judges let you do it.
Nixon is crying himself to sleep right now.
He was just born in the wrong century.
And while were at it: Charlie Manson, Aldrich Ames, Lee Harvey Oswald… should have run for president. These are just horribly misunderstood men who never got the opportunity afforded to every white man: to outrun the law while running for office.
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This looks like good news. Even if it’s not, I’ll take it that way just for my mental health.
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Hold a moment.
Just start a PAC and tell peole youre rasing funds for some right wing garbage… some fools will just send you money who are easily duped. Just sign them up to automaticlly reoccurring transactions for 2-10x the amount they selected.
Way easier, legal, and probably more lucrative than robbing a real bank.
/snark.
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Dismiss the case? Are you for real? There’s a jury verdict. Barring a pardon or an appeal there is absolutely no grounds or precedent for such a thing that I’m aware of.
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That’s because we’ve never had a coronation before. Changes everything!
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It appears that Donald Trump long ago made a deal with the Devil, and it has kept him rich and largely immune from legal consequences for his actions. It still seems to me that he is a deeply unhappy man who requires fawning adoration from sycophants just to get through the day. In that, I guess, the Devil gets his due.
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I’m a little slow. Could someone explain to me how reimbursing your lawyer under false pretenses for making hush money payments to a porn star in order to win an election constitutes presidential official business?
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He gets away with Every. Last. Thing.
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Damn…that is perfect.
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