A judge is due to decide Tuesday whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money case because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
New York Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s historic trial, is now tasked with deciding whether to toss out the jury verdict and order a new trial — or even dismiss the charges altogether. The judge’s ruling also could speak to whether the former and now future commander-in-chief will be sentenced as scheduled Nov. 26.
The Republican won back the White House a week ago but the legal question concerns his status as a past president, not an impending one.
The problem is that if he does not scrap it, he knows his life will be in danger, if not just terrorized by MAGA supporters. I really hope he does not scrap it, as it will set up a new precedent for Trump crimes.
Calling it now:
He does get sentenced, but will be given “time served” since he gave his Presidential paychecks back to the IRS.
This way, he didn’t “worm his way out of it” and then any politician caught doing anything can use the precedent of “I have been serving the country for years!” to avoid any actual punishment.
You wonder why so many politicians were lawyers all of their lives before getting into politics.