Well I’ll admit I’m pretty surprised. This case was weak from the jump off point. But he was found guilty on all counts.
Now as the WSJ points out these were all low level felonies with no mandatory minimums. And he has a clean record. So he may just get a ■■■■ ton of fines and community service when he’s sentenced.
But this is pretty shocking as it’s the first time this has ever happened in American history.
I’ll add that I looked around the forum and didn’t see this posted. But if there is already a thread on the guilty verdict, I do request that mods either delete this thread or merge it with any other potential thread.
If a hundred thousand people in suburban Pittsburgh switch their vote to Biden because of this whole convicted felon thing, Biden wins PA outright and then only has to pick up one other battleground state to win…
It will be every year now, this kind of thing. Bad road to go down…next up, the democrats will be put on trial in places like West Virginia, Alabama, etc.
the verdicts will be a forgone conclusion every time. it will be tit for tat, and turn us into a banana republic.
The crime here was that he totally ■■■■■■ up how to pay Daniels hush money.
Had he simply paid her out of pocket, then it wouldn’t have been illegal.
Issue was that he funneled the money through his 2016 campaign fund. Probably for tax reasons and to make it more complicated to hide. My own theory is that he’s never been as rich as he claimed to be and done it because he needed a large sum of money right then and there that he didn’t have.
Because of how he did the paperwork and the reporting, it was illegal. Frankly he screwed up. Most rich people in that situation would have just paid her out of pocket.
Trump is generally the worst kind of crook. Not only is he crooked but he goes about it in a moronic way.
No different than those morons like Tyquan who rob the convenience store down the road from their block and act surprised when the owner literally asks them what they are doing by name.