A Blessed 34 Felony Convictions Day to all who celebrate.

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1. As much as I want to like this, the reality is that he likely will appeal eleventy thousand times and somehow plea his way out of any significant time and then claim that the whole thing was rigged against him thereby solidifying his hold over the Trumpettes.

   1. Even in the very unlikely event that he winds up in a prison cell, that still means next to nothing as far as the horrifying possibility of Trumpanzees somehow successfully voting him in as President in November.

      Oh, and here’s a little “fun” fact, if Trump does get sentenced to actual prison time (fingers crossed for that pie in the sky outcome), that unfortunately means Secret Service people would then be forced to hang out in a prison, too. (Is it possible to revoke Secret Service privileges for convicted former presidents? If not, maybe we, as a society, should look into changing that…)

      1. It is eminently possible to revoke Secret Service protection for former Presidents. There’s nothing in the Constitution nor in Federal law actually requiring it. It’s more of a Secret Service policy and courtesy (and also, y’know, they’ve potentially been made aware of very sensitive information which can’t easily be removed from their brains when they leave office, so it’d be a little bit of a national security issue if they effed off to Russia unsupervised, for instance).

         1. This is not true. The Former Presidents Act of 1958 extends USSS protection to former presidents and their spouses unless they were removed from office after being convicted by the Senate. The Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 (re-)extends it to lifetime protection after it had been temporarily reduced to 10 years in 1994. So withdrawing his protection would require an act of Congress or TFG to waive protection.

         2. He’s been selling everything he knows to Russia from the start anyway. I just hope the info he gives them is as garbled and useless as his usual output.

      2. “(Is it possible to revoke Secret Service privileges for convicted former presidents? If not, maybe we, as a society, should look into changing that…)”

         My thoughts exactly. We should look in to changing it whether he goes to prison or not. He will have lost his right to vote, so he should lose his right to protection as well.

   2. Even though an appeal, is for all intents, guaranteed to happen, that will take months. So whether Trump sees the inside of a jail cell or not, the Biden Campaign can spend the entire time between now and the election calling him “Convicted Felon Donald Trump.” That’s not nothing. Plus, I doubt there’s much that a fair court would see as a basis to overturn the conviction on. The prosecution laid enough groundwork before supporting what Cohen would say before putting him on the stand, that jury believed him. So I don’t think a fair court’s going to mess with that. And it would probably take some time before it gets in front of SCOTUS for the final appeal.

2. If anything calls for Sparks McGee making an appearance and dancing a little jig, this is it.

   1. Did someone mention Sparks McGee? My life is but to serve. Consider me dancing at my keyboard.

3. He finally won the popular vote.

   1. That is a so perfect of a statement. You made me snort coffee out my nose.

   2. 👏👏👏 well done.

4. I really want to believe he’ll face serious punishment. I really want to believe this will hurt his chances in November. I really want to believe he’s not going to wriggle out of this one. But I’ve been broken too many times now. I can’t open my heart to hope, it just makes the eventual disappointment sting that much more.

5. LOL! The nicknames – Trumpanzees, Trumpettes in the comments.

6. Until he either goes to jail, or pays a painfully large sum of money (or both), I just don’t see a need to break out the good Whisk(e)y just yet.

7. To follow up on this, apparently the Trumpanzees went and broke the Trump campaign donation website, while falling over themselves to give the flagrantly lying conman over thirty-four million dollars (essentially a bit over a million dollars for each one of the 34 counts for which he was convicted) almost literally overnight, because of course they did.

8. If you think that Trump was awful
   for not accepting the results of the 2020 election, fasten your seat belts. He absolutely will never accept that he’s a convicted criminal. He will, in his own mind, undoubtedly conclude that his fate is due only to the workings of jealous, lesser men evoking their envy over his beauty, power and capability. Expecting his “Self” to admit defeat is like expecting a quadriplegic to do the hokey-pokey.

   I always feel like Ash in “Alien, mesmerized by such a specimen of narcissism.

   “I admire his purity. Unclouded by conscience. Remorse. Or delusions of morality.”

   Yup.

   Ripley…?

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