Trump gets no jail time or penalties in sentence for hush money

from Romania?

EDIT: Can folks please stop using the downvote as an "I disagree" button. I upvoted Admiral Patrick because they're providing a meaningful contribution to discussion even if I disagree with the point. That's why it's called a discussion. They understand we disagree with our words, we don't need to downvote them to hell to get that point across, jeeze.

With all due respect, Admiral Patrick, this is a democracy, and the people who take these positions knowingly take them being public positions. By virtue of being a public position, they are respondent to the public.

If it was an "angry mob" of protestors outside of Aileen Cannon's house, I doubt we'd have the same issue with it, but law enforcement would.

If you take such a position and care more about your own life and skin then, in my humble opinion, you do not meed the bare minimum requirements for this position. This is a democracy and you are sacrificing yourself to the alter of the public good when you take such a job, up to and including dying to protect democracy.

You don't say "well I need to roll over to protect myself" when the outcome means you're letting all the most at risk suffer even worse under the thumb of someone like Trump. You just threw the weakest under the bus to save your own skin, which means you should have never been given the job to begin with, because you're supposed to represent everyone, not just the wealthy and well-to-do. The weakest deserve your representation and this is an abdication of that representation which means they were unsuitable for the job to begin with.

Literally, every time someone bends over and gives in because Trump might hurt them personally, that's just one cut among a death by a thousand cuts of our democracy. Each time they do it, they're sacrificing a stable society in the future to save their skins now, which in my eyes, is cowardice and antithetical to the entire position they took in the system.

We are literally slipping into fascism because of decisions like these and I do not care about Merchan's comfort when millions are suffering far worse than him, and he has just condemned them to worse by allowing this monster to walk free. He is literally telling us very clearly he values his own life more than the future of this country. He was no Nathan fucking Hale, that's for god damned sure.

Nathan Hale: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country"

Oh, I get it, and I'd be scared as hell too. However, I can still say he should have done his duty and has failed to show the integrity that role requires. He could just as easily be presiding over a mob case, knowing that to convict a crime boss would mean similar threats to his and his family's safety. What if he doesn't do his duty then for the same reason? If that's the best excuse, I still argue that he's not fit for the job.

People shouldn't get a pass just because they have power. All it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing.

They addressed your point in the last sentence. If he's too afraid to do his job, he should have recused himself.

When George Floyd was murdered they had a battalion n of police outside of the killer's house to protect him. Why can't they do the same here using the national guard if needed?

What a phenomenal argument for abandoning the rule of law in favor of terrorism.

So you’re saying if I’m indicted I should use violence instead of trusting the system.

Are you saying judges should be afraid to not do the right thing?

...A thought that hasn't occurred to me until now: are we effectively living under mob rule?

They might not make up a majority of people, but maybe they command a majority of angry mobs willing to show up at your house?

That just means there's more than one coward.

Yeah bullshit. This is something worth ending your career over. The judge should have done the right thing and accepted the consequences.

Surely the Neoliberals next signature piece of legislation they won't shut up about for decades as a "victory" won't be a heritage foundation created plot to further enshrine for profit insurance leeches into healthcare! Hopefully!

I wonder how they'll move to the right next cycle. "OK ok, we now support the death camps, but God damn it, line in the sand, those death Camps will have Taco Tuesdays! Vote Blue no matter who!"

As it is he is now required as a felon in NY to submit a DNA sample, which I am very doubtful he will do. Aint no way they're going to he able to get him to even give up spit. So yeah, no way he would have given up actual money.

As a side note, if somehow he does submit a sample, imagine the chaos if the database got a hit on an open case. Absolute fantasy fodder, I know, but man would that be sweet.

Yup I've been saying this as well. He's too young to actually run for election but it would be a great way to test just how bullet proof (no pun intended) being a presidential candidate is to criminal actions.

He used the campaign as an excuse many times in court filings and the courts gave him way more leeway to "avoid" appearance of "bias" once it became apparent he was the lead in primaries and after his nomination. And now that we know a state can't even block a candidate for committing insurrection during his last administration, there's no excuse not to run him since you could just argue age bias is wrong and there's no actual mechanism to stop under 35's from running anyway.

"We will invade Puerto Rico and force them to join the USA!"

main stream media orgasms from all the clicks they're getting

Probably not, but there’s also this:

Prosecutors had recommended the sentence, saying in court Friday, “we must be respectful of the office of the presidency” and Trump’s pending inauguration.

Makes you wonder why the prosecutors wasted all their time and tax payer resources just to recommend zero punishment. At least fine the dude in the amount he defrauded people.