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Donald Trump is going to be sentenced to prison. It’s absurd, it’s unjust, and it’s another body blow to the idea that America is a free republic where dissent is not just tolerated, but welcomed, and any man can get justice, no matter the color of his skin, contents of his wallet, or nature of his political opinions. All that is dead now, or dying, and even though Trump is unlikely actually to serve time, the sentence is coming as inevitably as fall follows summer.
This is because Juan M. Merchan, that unassailable source of impartial justice, on Wednesday denied Trump’s third request that he recuse himself from the Stalinist show trial he is overseeing in Manhattan. Trump, convicted of thirty-four felonies that are misdemeanors when anyone else commits them, pointed out that Merchan, whose brazen unfairness and rabid partisanship have been obvious from the beginning of these proceedings, has ties to Kamala Harris. Merchan, however, dismisses these as “stale and unsubstantiated claims,” and that’s that. No one else’s opinion was solicited or necessary. And that means that in a few weeks, Trump’s prison sentence will come.
The sentencing is set to come on Sept. 18. Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy points out that Sept. 18 is “two days after early voting in the 2024 election begins in Pennsylvania.” Merchan’s goal, according to McCarthy, is “to enable Vice President Harris and the media-Democratic complex to label Trump ‘a convicted felon sentenced to prison’ just weeks before Election Day, at a time when Americans will already have started voting in many states, not least the potentially decisive Pennsylvania battleground.” Hey, it’s easier than lining up the record of the Trump administration and the Biden regime and showing that it was a grand thing that Old Joe started pretending to be president on Jan. 20, 2021.
The whole idea is just to give the Harris campaign a powerful talking point when it’s crunch time. “The New York prosecution of Trump,” McCarthy points out, “was politics, not justice. That’s why we call it ‘lawfare.’ The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal.” It’s all just a stunt, put on from start to finish for political purposes.
And so Merchan will sentence Trump to prison. The former president doesn’t actually have to be apprehended and forced behind bars for the gambit to work. McCarthy explains, “And it’s not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison; it is virtually certain that Trump will get bail pending appeal, so Merchan can appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration — at least for now, and probably ever.”
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WPM says
Trump will wear it like a badge of honor ! How they have not seen this will backfire on them and how unaware there present course will making them look .Stalin would be proud of the democrats in 2024 ! If they could do this to Trump with all the money and power what plans do they have for regular nobodies who disagree with them in the near future?
Eva says
They’ll do to them what they did to the J6er’s.
No trial, no lawyers and held in conditiond that would make medieval England proud.
Wellington says
Should this happen it will serve for me as just one more reason why I will be voting for Trump, as though I needed another reason.
The Democrats have perverted justice in America and part, but only part, of the reason why I no longer consider it possible to be an informed and knowledgeable person and yet remain a Democrat and claim to be a patriotic American. I have come to despise the Democratic Party and think myself completely justified in this.
somehistory says
Several times in the history of this country, convicted criminals…actual criminals who had actually committed crimes and were serving time in jail….were elected to serve in public office.
The hyena and google are facing lawsuits for using various news organizations’ headlines in order to fool the public into believing the news outlets are supporters of her and walz.
She is the real criminal, along with her lying sidekick.
Harvest day is coming.