What is the real goal here?
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To consult and consider his options.
He can’t JAIL the President. I don’t care how personally righteous he believes his position is, because I don’t think he is 100% partisan. I do think he’s blinded by ideology - so he’s petty - but he also certainly believes what he’s done is right.
But he knows jailing or sentencing a President is a non starter and he will lose that fight. He could find himself embarrassed if it is appealed and overturned. Which it almost certainly will be. And he cannot in practicality just suspend it for four years.
He’s weighing it out.
He can’t JAIL the President. I don’t care how personally righteous he believes his position is, because I don’t think he is 100% partisan. I do think he’s blinded by ideology - so he’s petty - but he also certainly believes what he’s done is right.
But he knows jailing or sentencing a President is a non starter and he will lose that fight. He could find himself embarrassed if it is appealed and overturned. Which it almost certainly will be. And he cannot in practicality just suspend it for four years.
He’s weighing it out.
Why is this crappy case and verdict still a thing? Can the appellate court not hear the appeal if Trump has not been sentenced yet?
It's our legal process which I cannot being to understand. Remember the fraud case a while back - where apparently according to NY law, you don't even need to show someone had been defrauded? Evidently the next step is for this case to go to a NY appellate court (I believe).
I don't get this whole thing at all, and despite what people say, this case would never have been brought before a court had not Trump declared he was running for President. Even DOJ, who hates him, decided against it. And to this day, I still don't get the illegality of a totally legal NDA and whether it was paid by someone else and recorded as a personal payment or whether it was paid by Trump himself and recorded as a political payment. Because to something 100% legal, it appears they "have him" doing something wrong - and that presumably is paying money for election interference.
Does that mean paying celebrities to endorse you also counts as election interference?
He stepped in it and can now smell it on his shoe. It probably seemed like a good idea to compromise your already shaky principles and try to imprison your benefactor's political opponent. Now he's left holding the bag and the people urging him on are nowhere to be found.
He's trying to make a graceful dismount.
He's trying to make a graceful dismount.
Now that the election is over he has lost all his "behind the scenes" political protection. THE Democrats that were pushing him to act and "Nail" Trump can't be found with a Search Warrant!