Guilty does NOT make much of ANYBODY Happy….
Donald J. Trump is NO Different……
He will go thru the mundane and sobering steps that every convicted felon goes thru….
And could end up incarcerated if he isn’t careful….
On July 11….
The judge WILL decide his fate…..
“Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.” The cadence of a historic moment, set against the smashing of keyboards in a courtroom jammed with reporters battling failing Wi-Fi to deliver the news. Trump, the world would soon learn, will be sentenced — perhaps to prison — just days before he formally claims the GOP mantle to return to the most powerful job in the world.
Immediately after the verdict, Trump stared straight ahead, contemplating the moment. Then he whipped his gaze back toward the jury as each member individually confirmed that the judgment was unanimous: Trump had falsified 34 business records to cover up a payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, when Daniels was poised to go public with her account of having sex with Trump a decade earlier.
The trial was over. And minutes later, the jury was gone.
Though Trump and his allies had long predicted the outcome, the former president still appeared stung, grimacing on his way out of the courtroom before returning to his defiant form and declaring he would be vindicated in the November election. His campaign operation declared that he was already a “political prisoner,” echoing language he has used to describe the Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol in his name.
The most jarring aspect of the moment was its mundane efficiency. If you closed your eyes, it sounded no different than the end of a run-of-the-mill criminal trial, with the foreman ticking through the charges before a relatively standard statement of gratitude from the judge for the jury’s completion of its civic duty….
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Trump’s lawyers made clear that even as they absorbed the indignity of Trump’s guilt, they were already turning to his legal woes elsewhere. Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney, requested a sentencing hearing in mid or late July so that it wouldn’t conflict with a crucial three-day hearing Trump is slated to attend in Florida related to his documents case. Trump, Blanche said, would be spending significant time in a secure facility to review some of the extraordinarily sensitive classified documents in that case.
At the same time, his lawyers will also be preparing him for an interview with a Manhattan probation officer who will help propose a sentence….