Woke up in the middle of the night and looked at the news. Trump convicted of 34 counts of falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House. (NY Times)
People are happy that there's some external objective evidence of something we've always known.
I can't imagine the people who were going to vote for him will be swayed by this, they see everything negative against him as false anyway. More fake news. The people who wear golden diapers will just be sold t-shirts with 34 on it.
The new territory isn't actually very exciting. He can still vote for himself because Florida follows the laws of the conviction and in NY you can still vote as a felon.
What is the sentence? We shall find out. 1 in 10 cases of fraud lead to imprisonment. (NBC)
They say he drives up clicks and attention, but I avoid him. He does provocative things for the attention. Whether or not his fascist rhetoric is sincere or attention getting, I don't care, not really interested in amplifying anything he says, even if it's to express disgust at his cocamamie ploys. Not even to parse how wrong it is. I was never going to vote for him and this doesn't change that fact.
HCR writes:
After slightly less than ten hours of deliberation, a jury today found former president Donald J. Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to unlawfully influence the 2016 election.
For the first time in our history, a former president of the United States is a convicted felon.
For the first time in our history, a former president of the United States has been convicted of committing crimes to steal an election.
Republican senators could have convicted Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors in 2019. In that year, the House impeached Trump after he tried to rig the 2020 presidential election by withholding congressionally appropriated funds to support Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s 2014 invasion. He withheld the funds to try to force Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky to manufacture dirt on Democrat Joe Biden.
Republican senators could have convicted Trump, but they acquitted him.
Republican senators could have convicted Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors in 2021. In that year, the House impeached him after he tried to seize the presidency by instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol and trying to rig the count of the electoral vote after Americans had elected Democrat Joe Biden.
Republican senators could have convicted Trump, but they acquitted him.
Today, twelve ordinary Americans did what Republican senators refused to do. They protected the rule of law and held Trump accountable for his attempt to rig an election.
(Read the rest on her substack, worth subscribing to.)
One in ten Republicans probably won’t vote for a felon. He just lost 10% of his voters. Source
Reddit: “ Previous polls showed 20% "would not" vote for him if he was convicted. He keeps lowering the bar and they happily climb down with him. Before he was president, 72% of Evangelical voter disagreed with the statement: someone can make immoral choices in their personal life, but still be a moral leader. By the end of his term it was %30. Hypocrites.”
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