Posted on 12/15/2025 5:36:38 PM PST by bitt
Over the past year, the phrase “convicted felon” became political manna for the left. Since President Donald Trump's "conviction" on 34 felony counts, lefties have transformed the phrase into a permanent stamp on his political soul.
Trump’s opponents spoke as if the law had reached its final destination, a confidence that now looks premature. Courts, constitutional limits, and shifting legal ground suggest the stamped label may not last much longer.
The 34-count felony conviction in New York was tied to falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment. The sentence brought no jail time, no fine, and no probation, only an unconditional discharge. Even so, the conviction became a political weapon for the left, repeated endlessly as proof of accountability.
American law doesn't freeze at verdicts—appeals exist for a reason, and circumstances have changed dramatically since the trial ended. The first crack appeared when a federal court revived Trump's attempt to move the case there.
Judges ruled that lower courts must take a fresh look at whether trial evidence touched Trump’s official conduct as president. If prosecutors crossed that line, the conviction rests on unstable ground.
The second development carried even more weight. The U.S. Justice Department filed a brief arguing that the conviction should be vacated because the trial evidence relied on official acts shielded by presidential immunity. It's an extraordinary move; the federal government rarely urges the undoing of a state criminal conviction involving a sitting president. That position didn't come from politics alone; it flowed from Supreme Court doctrine.
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We are living in post-reality.
Over the past year? Entertainment industry nitwits, fake news agitators, and other Demagogic Party demagogues have been trumpeting this BS for many years now.
ALL they trumpet is BS. What pathetic clowns.
Bkmk
Every time I see some leftist useful idiot parrot that “34 felonies”, I ask them to tell me exactly which statute(s) President Trump violated, with paragraph and section numbers.
So far, not a single one has provided a statute.
I tell them that if they want to convince conservatives, they will need actual details, not some catch phrase that they repeat mindlessly.
Don’t be so rough on them. Even the jury didn’t know the answer to that question.
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