This was obviously the plan all along.
Bullshit…
I think Merchan would’ve sentenced him had he lost the election.
Perhaps…
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, the pressure was huge. Like the rest of his cases, nobody wanted to be the one who threw an ex-president in jail. However, he instead decided to play chicken to see if his job would get done for him, and it was. Now he gets to wash his hands of it.
Regardless, this is a complete failure of the justice system and he needs to step down or be removed. We don’t need biased judges who are too afraid to do their job.
Noone wanted to be the judge who stood up and loudly declared that a president is not above the law? That seems weird
I second this…
But with these MAGA wackos, his life would have been on the line…
Now that I think about it, aren’t judges sworn to uphold the law and the constitution over anything else, let’s say their life?
Almost like he may not have been qualified to uphold that part of his job…
(End of rambling thought)
Nothing has been decided yet, the prosecution has asked that the case be frozen until the end of Trump’s term, and so he has given Trump’s team their legal right to submit a motion for dismissal. He is likely to take to pausing the trial as the prosecution has asked for. And I do believe if Trump had lost we would have gotten a sentence, but him winning makes him “quasi” immune until the end of his term.
Cool. I think Merchan is a fucking traitor.
Our entire justice system is a kangaroo court.
Just keep sitting on your ass america and let it happen… Just like you’re used to…
Did any of you really think he was going to face any consequences?
Only if he wasn’t reelected.
Even then, likely not.
I didn’t say appropriate consequences, but there would have been something.
I admit I got got. But I figured fines and “probation” were it.
I had hoped. But I also hope to win the lotto. And of the two I felt like me winning the lotto was more likely.
Elected or not, I seriously doubted anything would happen. Via he bribes the right people, the people who were literally worshiping him do what they can to get charges dropped, or the whole proceeding would take so long he just dies old age.
This just PROVES that the ONLY Way to Beat the Court system is to THREATEN TO MURDER THE JUDGES FAMILY and IGNORE the Judge no matter WHAT he says like Trump did!
Hey this is totally fair, it would be the exact same for anyone who became president
/s
We treat everybody the same in our legal system
Hahahaha… Oh, wait. Ah, fuck! 😞
What the absolute horse-riding gigafuck?
any decision about whether the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision applies to Trump’s criminal hush money case.
IANAL but I’m also not a fucking moron - he was a candidate for president, not president. This case has nothing to do with presidential immunity.
On Wednesday, Trump’s attorneys argued in a letter to the court that the criminal conviction must be dismissed “to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power.”
The incumbent president has no responsibility “to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power” but some criminal case judge in NYC does?
