He got off easy.
90 days for trying to overthrown the government and verbally attacking the judge. What a fucking joke of a sentence.
Hey it’s not like he did something insanely criminal, like owning a negligible amount of cannabis to enjoy in the privacy of his own home.
How about trying to vote with a provisional ballot after being told it’s okay to vote and then being thrown in jail because it wasn’t okay to vote.
You forgot to add that she did all of that while being black. If she had had the good sense to be white, she probably wouldn’t have spent 5 years in jail.
Insulted a prosecutor and verbally attacked the judge who punished him.
The little guy getting an actual sentence out of it while cowardly judges refuse to toss trump in jail for worse.
for worse
I’d say they’re both guilty of the exact same thing, they’re just two halves of the same crime.
Without mooks like this, trump was essentially just a loud angry nuisance, at least as far as the election goes. He could rant about how much the election was stolen until his face went from orange to blue, but at the end of the day he couldn’t have done anything about it.
And without people like trump to rile them up, most of these idiots probably would have just stayed home.
You need both halves of it for something like 1/6 to have taken place.
These judges are playing a long game that people like us are too ignorant to see.
Example; The judge’s ruling in Colorado that kept him on the ballot? Found him factually guilty of insurrection.
No matter the verdict, this was going up the legal food chain. The next court has no choice but to accept that he’s an insurrectionist. Feel me? That is now an established fact that an appellate court cannot disregard or change.
Fucking brilliant legal maneuvering.
So what? Everyone has known that Trump took part in an insurrection for years and it hasn’t made a bit of difference. Unless you have a specific case in mind where that legal distinction is likely to make a difference then you’re just debating the semantics of “nothing happened to him”.
We already know history will not look favorably on Trump. Solidifying the words future historians will use to describe him doesn’t make his election to a second term any less likely.
Actually no. The appellate hearings don’t have to accept the lower court’s findings and can ignore the opinion entirely to reach their own conclusions. Leaving him on the ballot creates a potential constitutional crisis. Consider the possibility that it doesn’t reach the Supreme Court until Trump has been elected.
The best outcome is Trump is not the GOP nominee. Parties can set their own rules for primaries, but once he’s on the ticket, you’re talking about the courts disenfranchising a bunch of morons. And while we may all prefer that morons don’t vote, the fact is that the legal system that protects their right to vote also protects everyone else’s right to vote.
This was a justice splitting the baby to try to keep both sides from attacking politically and physically.
insulted a prosecutor and verbally attacked the judge who punished him.
Sounds like a certain ex-president who deserves to have his eventual sentence quadrupled.
Those aren’t crimes though. Dude should get a sentence reflecting what he did, not reflecting his right to say political figures (and judges and prosecutors absolutely are) are fuckwits
He’s still getting less than four months. It should be a lot worse to reflect the severity of what he did.
Article doesn’t really say what he did, but the prosecutors only asked for twenty one days so probably fuck all
Contempt of court is a crime. Also I like how you lumped the judicial and executive branches into “political figures” like there isn’t a constitutional difference.
They’re often elected. And it doesn’t seem to mention a contempt of court charge
I think the article makes it seem different than it is.
He was going to get a lighter sentence because he was showing remorse by playing guilty. Then his behavior between the plea and the sentencing showed that he wasn’t actually remorseful, so they go back to what they would have sentenced him.
It’s like if you get offered a discount on a bill if you pay early, then you pay late instead and have to pay the full amount. They aren’t charging you more, they’re just not offering the early discount because you didn’t hold your end of the bargain up.
So, he’s getting the sentence he deserved without credit for showing that he knows what he did was wrong.
Lesson for other defendants: the time to return to being an asshole is after everything has been settled.
I demand to have the convict extradited to Singapore, where they will add twenty lashes of the cane to the sentence.
I remember when the right wing was positively excited about the way Singapore does this for even minor infractions. The same bunch were popping chubbies over that guy in Vegas threatening to cut off the thumbs of people caught doing graffiti.
Now the very same bunch cry over how these “peaceful protesters” are being persecuted for “touring the Capitol”, etc…
