Originally published at: Judge Schedules Trump To Be Sentenced In Hush Money Case Before Inauguration
In a major decision from New York state court, Judge Juan Merchan upheld President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 criminal conviction for falsifying records to cover up his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels, rejecting arguments from Trump’s lawyers claiming he gets preemptive presidential immunity. Merchan scheduled Trump to be sentenced on Jan. 10, ten days before inauguration.…
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Kind of anti-climactic since prison is off the table. And he’ll appeal the sentence and the SCOTUS will shut it down and the President-elect will boast that he beat the unfair rap he got from Merchan.
I don’t know if there’s any other outcome we could anticipate.
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No jail time but did anyone expect it? Not me. I’d be happy with a substantial fine that could hurt his bottom line but don’t anticipate it will happen.
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He’ll just have his slush fund pay it - he won’t take any responsibility for anything, any time, anywhere.
Point me in the direction of where he’s taken responsibility in the past.
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Michael Cohen, Trump’s bag man in this very same case, spent three years in federal prison for similar, although federal, charges.
Trump again gets away with murder. I’m so tired of this shit.
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Glad that something is happening, even though it’s toothless.
OT: Why do I have to click through 3 or 4 times after reading the article to see the comments and be able to like or comment?
That seems excessive, and for no reason that I can discern.
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34 felonies and no jail time?
That hasta be a legal record of some sort
To me it stinks. This is not a sentencing though I do appreciate Judge Merchan’s comments about trump’s abusive language.
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I’m sure having a permanent mark on his record will finally lead him to a life of gratitude and public service.
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He gets away with it.
More proof that the rule of law is dead.
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So, for the record you may feel free to disrespect the court continually, brazenly violate gag orders via surrogates, threaten officers of the court, attack the judge’s wife and daughter, threaten prosecutors, and intimidate the jury, and you will not even get a slap on the wrist.
This is why the Luigi Mangiones of the world take the law into their own hands, and this is why they are folk heroes.
PS - has the State of New York received their $450+ million from the fraud case last year? Howsabout E. Jean Carroll? Is that swift justice?
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The notion of “No one is above the law” is, and always has been, a God damned myth perpetrated on us.
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Thank God, there’s a judge somewhere who will stand up to the orange menace.
As both Josh M and David K have repeatedly editorialized, we have had a complete failure of the judicial system with respect to Trump in the last four years, notwithstanding the defense of the Appeals Process by some of our JD’d members here at TPM.
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Agreed.
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Blame your fellow citizens. Alvin Bragg did everything he needed to do.
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He should have to wear an ankle bracelet during his four years in the White House, and spend the ten days prior to the inauguration in New York lock-up.
I can dream, can’t I?
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No, it’s an aspiration. Something to work towards. Insisting it’s a lie and giving up – that’s just loser talk.
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Hang on a minute - he’s ruled out jail time, but not the death sentence?
/s unfortunately.
Continues his run of not facing any consequences for anything, ever. Any fine will be paid out of slush funds, jailing TSF would have been the only real punishment.
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For the first - appeals court is going to slash it to a miniscule amount
Carroll is in escrow, his goal is that she’s die before seeing a penny.
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