Donald Trump was sentenced in New York on Friday, capping a long and, at times, embarrassing ordeal that saw him become the first ex-president to be criminally convicted.
Merchan suggested that Trump would have received a stiffer sentence had he been a private citizen – but that the “extraordinary legal protections” provided by the office of the presidency left him no other options.
If only there had been a significant period of time in which he was a private citizen.
What a fucking farce. I hate these people. The hand wringing from these intentionally ineffectual taint lickers is worse than Trump’s actions imo. The social contract is dead and so is justice.
I guess I don’t understand their reasoning at all here. Trump is currently a private citizen and the entire point of our checks and balances system is the judicial branch is supposed to not give a fuck about whats going on in the executive branch and issue rulings on what is in front of them.
Nevermind the fact that the whole “you can’t prosecute a sitting president” thing is entirely based on a fucking post-it note written by some aide trying to protect another criminal Republican president from prosecution. The fact that anyone has taken that seriously shows you how desperate they are to find any reason to keep themselves above reproach. The simple truth underpinning all of this bullshit is that they have no intention of holding the rich and powerful to account under any circumstances.
I mean I agree that Merchan was comically lenient here, but it’s not his fault that American voters re-elected Trump. Nobody knows what it means to try to jail a sitting president, nobody. The system is designed in a way that assumes that American voters would never vote for a convicted criminal. That isn’t the case, so the whole system fails.
Trump is not capable of being embarrassed, he’s too stupid and egotistical for that. The only embarrassment here is for our country that such an ignoramus could be elected again
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Yay. Now he gets to start a brand new embarrassing chapter
