A New York jury has found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to an adult-film actress, delivering a historic verdict that could shape the November election.
The verdict makes Trump the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime but his disgrace did not stop Republicans from nominating him for the third time.
This is after he incited the January 6 insurrection.
And after a civil jury determined that he raped E. Jean Carroll but the GOP didn’t care.
Now, he’s been proven to have cheated on his wife and falsified business records to conceal the hush money payoff.
The presumptive Republican Party nominee delivered near-daily tirades outside the court during the seven-week trial, excoriating the justice system and declaring his innocence.
Those attacks on American justice were also ignored by party stalwarts who embrace the disgrace along with his departures from policy that long defined Republicans.
Unlike Ronald Reagan’s hardline against communism and authoritarian figures that are rivals for world power, Trump surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban, entertained North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un, and coddled Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some in Trump’s inner circle appear ready to abandon Ukraine rather than continue aid intended to fend off Russia’s invasion.
The Republican Party’s fiscal conservatism gave way to government handouts and about $8 trillion in deficit spending during Trump’s initial foyr years in the White House.
His claims of support for gun rights conflicted with his administration’s unconstitutional ban on bump stocks, government conservatism and free market capitalism was replaced with coronavirus subsidies, and free trade was converted to an economic war with China that triggered massive inflation before ending in deadlock.
For his next act, Trump is fairly transparent about his tyrannical values and disdain for freedom to criticize the government. Instead of eliminating conditions that provoke people to flee Latin America, Trump intends to round up and deport the masses yearning to breathe free.
The leader of the free world cannot pretend that events elsewhere are unimportant to the United States but no American has preached isolationism as much as Trump since before World War II. Modern Republicans seem unconscious to the cost of throwing away America’s Cold War victory.
The jurors, whose names were shielded by the judge from public view, spent a little more than a day weighing the felony counts before returning their judgment saying Trump was guilty.
Throughout the ordeal, he viciously showed contempt for the judge and jury system. This is the same pattern applied by respecting only elections that go his way. But this is not a schoolyard bully cheating in a game of tag. Trump has stoked the chance to set America in flames with a second Civil War.
Trump faces a maximum sentence of 1⅓ to four years in prison but his sentencing was delayed by the Supreme Court’s decision making presidents above the law. His appeal to puritanical Christians is undisturbed by the conclusive evidence that he had sex with a porn star while his wife recuperated from childbirth.
Given his age and his lack of a prior criminal record, he could serve a shorter sentence or no term of incarceration at all.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan initially scheduled the former president’s sentencing for July 11 — just days before the start of the Republican National Convention, where Trump was formally nominated for the third time.
His plan for the remaining criminal charges is to win the election and prevent those cases from ever going to trial.
Of course, Trump has been saying that there is no justice in America. When he was available to accept the nomination, he be proved himself right about that.
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