Posted on 01/11/2025 11:13:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Arms crossed, scowl set, President-elect Donald J. Trump avoided jail, but became a felon.
Mr. Trump appeared virtually at his criminal sentencing on Friday from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, more than 1,000 miles away from the chilly Manhattan courtroom where his case was called for a final time. Projected on a 60-inch screen, his image loomed over the gallery as a prosecutor recounted his crimes and a judge imposed his sentence.
Mr. Trump once faced up to four years in prison for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, but on Friday, he received only a so-called unconditional discharge. The sentence, a rare and lenient alternative to jail or probation, reflected the practical and constitutional impossibility of jailing a president-elect.
It nonetheless carried symbolic significance, capping a yearslong ordeal that consumed Mr. Trump as a weary nation reckoned with the prospect of a criminal president. Once the sentencing concluded, it cemented his status as the first felon to occupy the Oval Office.
“Never before has this court been presented with such a unique and remarkable set of circumstances,” said the trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, who has felt the brunt of Mr. Trump’s rage over the case the past two years. “This has been a truly extraordinary case.”
It was also “a bit of a paradox,” he said, as the somber ritual of sentencing testified to both the supremacy and limits of presidential power.
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Once again, the NYT spews its vitriol against one of the many that it hates!
Biden is pretty much a mass murderer, but no penalty.
does it make a sound?
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No more than an a human fart. Neither the volumn or smell
will last long. The world keeps spinning, humans live till
they die and the newborns keep acting as replacements. The
illegals keep coming and becoming a fixture in some form.
Wish there was a way to drop a B61 on the NY slimes.
George Washington was guilty of treason.
Biased judge applying made-up law + Biased jury pool = wrongful felony conviction.
Don’t forget Hillary. James Comey sad she committed a felony but, despite Nancy Pelosi, she is above the law.
Democrat collusion.
The SOB judge did that deliberately.....as a sop to Democrats.
So hate-filled Dems can say there’s a felon in the WH
The lying NYT’s and Leftist media is going to call Trump a felon when in fact “unconstitutional discharge “ means he is NOT a convicted felon.
The truth doesn’t matter to these snakes.
How I hate the Left.
Joe Biden started raping his daughter Ashley when she was 11 yrs old, didnt stop these commies from voting for him
President Trump, in his inauguration speech, Must declare himself the first dissident president and savage lawfare.
Oh we care. We just don’t think it reflects poorly on Trump. We care because we recognize that everyone involved is guilty of absurd lawfare that must be stopped.
As President and Commander-In-Chief can personally carry any kind of weapon he wants up to and including machine guns and RPGs. Are you really arguing that a man that can launch a nuclear war can’t carry a personal weapon for protection? That’s insane and ludicrous.
The NY Times is a trash can liner but it still prints.
Agreed!
And yes, we all feel so bad for Los Angeles, why should the rest of the country get stuck paying for their poor political decisions? We know darn well they’re going to continue on with the same hierarchy and their idiocy. Hopefully, Trump will straighten this out.
They couldn't even make Trump stay after and clap the erasers.
Right about now I'm betting Merchan is hoping he can drift into obscurity.
I highly recommend the New York Times—for puppy training.
Hopefully the pups know what to do with leftist trash.
In all my years of judging, I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of law.
-PJ
Who the F cares? Only losers.
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