Trump Convicted on All 34 Counts in NY Hush-Money Case
Sentencing takes place on July 11th.
Donald Trump is now a convicted felon. If he were a sitting U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative, he would be forced from office instantly and barred from running. But there are no rules for this at the presidential level. So this is likely not over. And Trump says it’s “not nearly over,” but it *IS* a matter of historical fact.
And MSNBC’s Chris Hayes makes the brilliant case that it’s not the GOP that has held him responsible, not in the two cases brought and won by E. Jean Carroll, and not in this case. It’s ordinary Americans who have done, and they have done it based on the law.
And this case goes to the core of Trump’s true nature: This case is about defrauding the American people before his election in 2016, and everybody involved—Michael Cohen, the editors of The National Enquirer, White House handlers, and Trump himself—believed if the Stormy Daniels story came out, Trump would lose the election. And when he won, the editor of The National Enquirer, who set up a catch-and-kill net to keep the truth from the American people, commented, “What have we done?”
Indeed. What they did was help a criminal become president. And the underbelly of his sea slug was that when he was legitimately voted out of the office he stole in 2016 with lies, he incited an attempted insurrection to stay—one for which 800 people have been convicted.
What will Trump do next?
Trump will:
Imply that his followers should re-elect him so that he can pardon himself for what he’ll call “dirty courts.”
If he wins he will jail every single district attorney and juror who has convicted him.
He will destroy the judiciary.
He will become dictator, not just on “day one” but until he dies.
He will jail liberals, journalists, and patriots like Robert Reich and influencers like Robert Di Nero.
Now the GOP must decide whether to actually nominate them. They don’t have to, but with his daughter-in-law just appointed as head of the GOP at his insistence, he likely will be.
Now that Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 felony counts, there is the huge question is about the safety of prosecutors, jurors—Trump knows who they all are— judge Merchan and his daughter—whom Trump has attacked before—district attorney Alvin Bragg and his wife—whom Trump has attacked before, and other members of the court.
The other day Trump said, “It’s Trump or death.” He could very well mean that.
We have to vote. And we have to demand that Alito and Thomas recuse themselves from Trump’s immunity decision, coming up rapidly.
We need to push hard on the Supreme Court now.
More tomorrow on this …