Today, as we expected, President-elect Trump was not held accountable for using his wealth to conceal the truth from voters in 2016 about his relationship with Stormy Daniels.
A jury of American citizens determined that he was guilty of 34 counts of falsifying records to hide his activities from the public, yet he has been able to use the presidency to evade consequences.
The person holding the highest office in the land should be subject to a basic threshold for accountability, as prescribed under the law. Donald Trump went so far as petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the sentencing hearing.
This is a continuation of a pattern we have seen by Donald Trump—where he shirks accountability and seeks to rewrite the rules to benefit himself. While the Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him, it is dangerous that four Supreme Court Justices, two of whom he appointed, were willing to allow him to avoid today’s hearing.
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Most of the country saw the lawsuit for what it was, a total Kangaroo Court attack on Trump orchestrated by the opposite political party. It was a sham of a trial with a partisan judge and jury. Everyone knows the verdict will eventually be thrown out by a higher court. The one good thing was this fraud of a trial along with all the other Democrat orchestrated attacks on Trump helped elect him because it made more voters see him as the victim.
Alan Dershowitz’s take on trial sentencing:
“What we saw today was a scam, a ploy. It started with Judge Merchan telling in advance what a sentence was going to be. I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve never been told by a judge what the sentence is going to be. When I go into the courtroom with my client, I tell him to bring his toothbrush because he doesn’t know whether he’s going home or going to Rikers or some other lockup. The only reason Merchan said in advance what he was going to do is to try to persuade the two justices of the Supreme Court not to take the case now and they use that fact.”
“And they said the reason we’re not taking the case now and stopping the sentencing from going forward was because the judge said in advance that he’s not sentencing him to prison. So this was a ploy and the two justices unfortunately fell for the ploy. This is the worst thing that’s happened to the American criminal justice system since McCarthyism and the civil rights abuses back in the 1950s and the victims of the American people. Trump, yes, it was hard he said very honestly, that it was tough for him, but he prevailed, he won and the American people won because they rejected lawfare. You know, I invented that term lawfare back in the ’60s. I don’t know if I’d be proud or ashamed of it, yeah.”