Posted on 01/10/2025 11:25:38 AM PST by george76
Below is my column at Fox.com on the sentencing of President-Elect Donald Trump. The conviction should be overturned on appeal. However, the most lasting judgment will be against the New York court system itself in allowing this travesty of justice to occur.
Here is the column:
With the sentencing of Donald Trump Friday, the final verdict on the New York criminal trial of the president-elect is in. The verdict is not the one that led to no jail or probation for the incoming president. Acting Justice Juan Merchan has brought down the gavel on the New York legal system as a whole.
Once considered the premier legal system in the country, figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F. Engoron and Juan Merchan have caused the system to be weaponized for political purposes. Trump will walk away from this trial and into the White House in less than two weeks, but the New York system will walk into infamy after this day.
The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total “b—s–t.”
It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses.
Merchan not only allowed those charges to be brought to trial but then added layers of reversible errors in the effort to bag Trump at any cost. For that, he was lionized by the liberal media and many New Yorkers. However, Trump still managed to pull in 3.6 million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election. After all of the lawfare and every advantage (including a heavily biased media and a larger war chest), Vice President Kamala Harris lost hundreds of thousands of votes in 2024 in comparison to Joe Biden just four years earlier.
Many polls showed that the public saw the Manhattan criminal case for what it was: raw lawfare targeting a leading political opponent. The election itself felt like the largest verdict in history as citizens rejected the political, legal, and media establishments in one of our nation’s most historic elections.
The New York court system will now have a chance to redeem itself but few are holding their breath. The appellate court has still not ruled on an appeal of Attorney General Lettia James’s equally absurd civil lawsuit against Trump. Despite judges expressing skepticism over Endoron’s use of a law to impose a grotesque $455 million in fines and interest, we are still waiting for a decision.
Most are waiting for this criminal case to escape the vortex of the New York court system. With this appeal, this peddler’s wagon of reversible errors will finally pull up in front of the Supreme Court itself.
With its ruling on Thursday night, the setting for a decision could not be better for Trump. The Supreme Court has again demonstrated that it has shown restraint and independence in these cases. In response to the ruling, Trump struck the perfect note Thursday night and declined to criticize the Court, stating that “This is a long way from finished and I respect the court’s opinion.”
The ultimate penalty on Friday morning from Judge Merchan reflects the lack of seriousness in the case. It was more inflated than the Goodyear blimp, pumped up by hot rage and rhetoric. The sentence was the pinprick that showed the massive void within this case.
The verdict is in. The New York legal system has rendered it against itself.
Even Fedderman knew this was all bull crap. I hope Trump sues all the players and the state, into oblivion.
What an absolute joke. Judges Eggnog and Merchandise as well as Tishkabibble and Braggart all ought to be disbarred at the very least, and thrown into State Prison for at least a year, maybe more.
Yes, President Trump should sue, Bigly.
Anyone know how soon we can expect Trump’s case to be appealed? Also, what is the name of the appeals court for his case?
BS article.
We just saw Judas Roberts and Barret, betray the Constitution.
It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life.
He ended up going from fame to flame abuse causes it.
There are 10 judges who serve this court; 8 are democrat and 2 republican. Appeal cases brought before this court are presided over by 3 judges who are assigned randomly from the 10 judges who work for this court.
If trump fails at this level, he can appeal to the next level appeals court.
Let’s move on.
The case will shuffle through appeals stops on its own pace.
Here comes Jan 20.
What about the US Supreme Court?
Appeal will fail in that court. It’s baked in with the democrat judges. The scheme is to deny the appeals until it gets to the federal system. If it makes it to the USSC, Roberts will punt on it since Roberts already has the four female justices votes to back him up to not hear the appeal.
Ping for later
Once was a humorous gif but now is absolutely, proven truth.
New York would be alright except for the people there.
I really am trying to recover from being a misanthropist (hates the human race). Being on FR helps.
Review your contracts and agreements to make sure neither NY law nor NY venue (place of trial) apply. Example:
This Agreement, and all claims or defenses based on, arising out of, or related to this Agreement of the relationship of the Parties created hereby, whether sounding in contract, tort, law, equity, or otherwise, shall be governed by, and enforced in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of ____________ [fill in the name of some state other than New York] including its statute of limitations, without reference to its choice of law rules or any principle calling for application of the law of any other jurisdiction; and venue for any action shall lie exclusively in the State of ____________ [fill in the name of some state other than New York].
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