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From the great Jennifer Rubin https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/04/trump-sentence-prison-merchan/ Seasoned legal minds differ on whether felon and former president Donald Trump should receive prison time for his conviction on 34 counts. However, considering the context of Trump’s crimes and his propensity to threaten judges, juries and witnesses, significant prison time is the only punishment that fits the crime and this convict. Sign up for the Prompt 2024 newsletter for opinions on the biggest questions in politics Trump’s crime of falsification of business records is considered a Class E felony — the lowest-level felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. (Punishment for each count would run concurrently, so the maximum would be four years, not 136 years.) Some, but certainly not most, of the convictions on these types of charges do result in prison time. In “Trying Trump: A Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial,” Norm Eisen examined almost 10,000 prosecutions for falsifying business records in New York since 2015, finding that about 10 percent resulted in prison time. While Trump’s status as a first-time offender would not exempt him from prison time, it normally would weigh in favor of a lighter sentence such as probation only or minimal prison time. But is this a normal case? Fraudulent record-keeping charges routinely get elevated to felonies (contrary to uninformed critics who thought this was an exotic maneuver), but Justice Juan Merchan has already recognized Trump’s crime was especially significant because of its momentous consequences: concealing possibly outcome-determinative information from the voters in 2016. (Even Trump cronies recognized the magnitude of their chicanery. “What have we done?” attorney Keith Davidson texted the editor of the National Enquirer after the election.) Merchan wrote in a pretrial ruling that “while it is true that the charges involve the lowest level felony and no one suffered physical harm, it can hardly be said that the allegations are not severe.” He stressed: “The People claim that the Defendant paid an individual $130,000 to conceal a sexual encounter in an effort to influence the 2016 Presidential election and then falsified 34 business records to cover up the payoff. In this Court’s view, those are serious allegations.” And, therefore, the convictions are serious. In addition to the gravity of the offense, the factors weighing most heavily in favor of a significant prison sentence are Trump’s conduct and character. It is not “simply” that Trump has multiple civil judgments against him (e.g., sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, inflating his property values and misusing charitable funds) or that he spearheaded a violent insurrection to overturn an election or even that his conduct resulted in multiple contempt citations in Merchan’s and Justice Arthur Engoron’s courtrooms. In this case, character and conduct also encompass how Trump treats the criminal justice system. From that perspective, imprisonment may be the only effective penalty because of Trump’s defective character. Chump-change fines for contempt during the trial did not slow him down. So long as he remains at large, with unfettered access to social media, he poses a threat to the people he attacks and the judicial system he maligns. Incarceration is the only means of holding Trump accountable for his wholesale attacks on the rule of law that continue to this day.

Sewers drain standing water where mosquitos breed!

Ah, no

It also quickened human evolution, by making food more nutritious, calorie rich, easier to eat and chew (so smaller teeth and larger brains) and safer (killed bacteria and such). It also gave humans protection from other animals and allowed us to live almost anywhere on the planet. Plumbing might be a luxury, but sewage systems are a public health measure that makes life in cities possible.

Those people do exist

You are a Trump supporter.

Oh, so your are just naturally stupid, lol

Oh, so that's what's up with you!

Go USA!!!

Is that how you see people that can't believe people actually think Trump in a decent person, a good leader and not a complete POS?

I wish this was all fake news, but it is who Trump is. Just a complete sh it If he was drunk, stoned and ODing fentanyl he would still make more sense than your Trump supporting ass

Has the Dow Jones Industrial Average doubled under Joe Biden? Yes

I wish I was paying better attention back then. The first one was bad, too, but this one with kidnapping children, torture, bombing cities, rapes and mass killings is worse. Hopefully Ukraine is able to get all it's territory back Yes, I was totally wrong on that one, no doubt 👍

The invasion

Oh, hey, why not just go here with your Trump scumming? Poor Donald, never told a lie, never broke a law 🤮

Wow

I guess I was mistaken. No more. Slava Unkrani! What else you got?

Do you ever get tired of defending one of the lowest scumbags ever to run for office? Why do you hate America?

Ah, poor thing