The 2020 Presidential Election: Trump is not gonna go to prison, but he is going to keep on committing a crime against the American people
“Unhinged by his 2020 election loss and spiraling from his criminal convictions, Trump is consumed by his own thirst for revenge and retribution,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement. “He thinks this election is about him. It is not. The American people need to lower their costs, protect their freedom, and defend their democracy.
A small gathering of supporters cheered intermittently during Trump’s speech. The night before, a crowd gathered on the street outside of Trump Tower after the verdict, chanting, “New York hates you.”
legal experts believe that Trump is not going to prison because he has no prior criminal record. This crime is punishable by anything from probation to a degree of house arrest, and up to four years in prison.
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He kept making false claims and was under a gag order. He wanted to testify in his defense, but was advised against it.
That hasn’t stopped Trump and the conservative media from saying that. But now, with this verdict, and with this likely to be the only trial Trump faces before the election — despite three other major, election-related cases against him — expect Biden to lean into this.
“They are in total conjunction with the White House and the DOJ,” Trump said of the court. “Just so you understand, this is all done by Biden and his people.”
There’s no evidence to support the claim. The case against Trump was brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, so it was unrelated to the White House or DOJ.
“I would have testified. I wanted to testify,” he said. “The theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify — anybody, if it were George Washington, don’t testify because they’ll get you on something that you said slightly wrong, and then they sue you for perjury.”
Trump’s remarks also veered into an array of other topics, like complaints about allegations made against him in 2022 by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He again went into stump speech mode, repeating his usual anti-immigration rhetoric and saying that American schools have lots of people speaking languages that we don’t know.
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Dozens of interviews with voters in the swing states of Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as well as Iowa, found not a single supporter of Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, who had been pulled from his side by his conviction on 34 felony counts of fabricating business records to hide hush-money payments to a porn star on the eve of the 2016 election. Prosecutors had framed their case in the loftiest of terms, election interference — an all-out effort to thwart the exposure of a sex scandal that may well have changed the course of history.
The attempts started fast and furious. The legitimacy of the verdict was denounced by Trump and his supporters immediately, followed by appeals from both campaigns.
Now, Biden has to choose. And right now, he’s slightly behind in the race. The question is not whether Biden will talk about the conviction, but whether he can deliver and take advantage of it.
The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows most voters will not change their minds. This may be a time of reset for the campaign, because it showed that some might be moved at the margins.
This is a historic moment in American history. Many Americans are likely to tune in to learn about the conviction. And the bottom line is: The last thing Trump wanted was “Trump” and “convicted felon” in the same headline. And barring an overturn on appeal before the election, that’s what will be attached to him as voters weigh their choices.
The president is cautious about speaking out about legal troubles. With Trump continuing to dominate the news with wall-to-wall coverage of the trials, it’s been hard for the Biden campaign to break through.
This is Trump’s party. Full stop. He will be nominated by the party. It will take place, incredibly, just days after he’s scheduled to be sentenced in this case (July 11).
The Republican National Committee has full control over Trump. He has installed loyalists in state parties across the country, and because of that, he’s in a stronger position with the Republican Party than in 2016 when he beat back a convention coup attempt from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and allies.
But that’s not happening. Republicans are lining up behind Trump, from the speaker of the House to the cadre of Trump allies auditioning to be his vice presidential running mate.
Michael Tyler said that there was only one way to keep Trump out of the Oval Office.
The verdict of Donald J. Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the wake of the 2016 midterm primary election, and the partisan divide in his wake
Remarkably, this is taking place in an election year in which said former president is running for his old job back, and it will undoubtedly have political consequences.
A jury of his peers in New York unanimously found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 presidential election.
As the nation’s electorate processed the felony convictions of Donald J. Trump, the partisan divide in the verdict’s wake did not look so much like opposing sides of a chasm but like two alternate universes, one where the former president had been hounded and persecuted by his corrupt political enemies, the other where justice had finally been served to a career criminal.
If the two sides were talking close to each other then it was small, but not anymore. A few people in the Trump universe allowed that he may have done something wrong, and that a few people in the anti-Trump sphere finally decided to vote for President Biden.
“I think that this was all a setup and rigged just like the election,” said Marty Lee, 77, of Scottsdale, Ariz., who was wearing a T-shirt that read “We the People Are Pissed Off.” He said that the trial was a farce. There is no basis for the suggestion that the verdict in the Manhattan case was rigged, as has been reported, due to the fact that false claims were made about it.
