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Donald Trump is going to be sentenced to prison. It’s absurd, it’s unjust, and it’s another body blow to the idea that America is a free republic where dissent is not just tolerated, but welcomed, and any man can get justice, no matter the color of his skin, contents of his wallet, or nature of his political opinions. All that is dead now, or dying, and even though Trump is unlikely actually to serve time, the sentence is coming as inevitably as fall follows summer.
This is because Juan M. Merchan, that unassailable source of impartial justice, on Wednesday denied Trump’s third request that he recuse himself from the Stalinist show trial he is overseeing in Manhattan. Trump, convicted of thirty-four felonies that are misdemeanors when anyone else commits them, pointed out that Merchan, whose brazen unfairness and rabid partisanship have been obvious from the beginning of these proceedings, has ties to Kamala Harris. Merchan, however, dismisses these as “stale and unsubstantiated claims,” and that’s that. No one else’s opinion was solicited or necessary. And that means that in a few weeks, Trump’s prison sentence will come.
The sentencing is set to come on Sept. 18. Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy points out that Sept. 18 is “two days after early voting in the 2024 election begins in Pennsylvania.” Merchan’s goal, according to McCarthy, is “to enable Vice President Harris and the media-Democratic complex to label Trump ‘a convicted felon sentenced to prison’ just weeks before Election Day, at a time when Americans will already have started voting in many states, not least the potentially decisive Pennsylvania battleground.” Hey, it’s easier than lining up the record of the Trump administration and the Biden regime and showing that it was a grand thing that Old Joe started pretending to be president on Jan. 20, 2021.
The whole idea is just to give the Harris campaign a powerful talking point when it’s crunch time. “The New York prosecution of Trump,” McCarthy points out, “was politics, not justice. That’s why we call it ‘lawfare.’ The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal.” It’s all just a stunt, put on from start to finish for political purposes.
And so Merchan will sentence Trump to prison. The former president doesn’t actually have to be apprehended and forced behind bars for the gambit to work. McCarthy explains, “And it’s not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison; it is virtually certain that Trump will get bail pending appeal, so Merchan can appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration — at least for now, and probably ever.” We can hope for the sake of what remains of the concept of impartial justice in the United States that McCarthy is right about this, but many analysts were saying that Trump would never be subjected to the indignity of a mugshot as well. It is entirely possible, given the authoritarian bent of the Biden-Harris regime and its incandescent hatred for Trump, that he will indeed go to prison.
In fact, Trump behind bars may be the left’s last resort, short of another assassination attempt. They’ve tried framing him for crimes, including a bogus “insurrection.” They impeached him twice. They’ve convicted him in court on charges that were concocted to give them a pretext to say that a court had found him guilty of wrongdoing. The prison card could be the last one they’re holding.
If Trump were actually in prison, leftists could say that this convicted and imprisoned felon could not possibly become the nation’s Chief Executive. How could he carry out acts of state? Would he conduct affairs of state from a prison cell? Would visiting heads of state have to be escorted into a penitentiary in order to meet with the president of the United States? Why, it would make a mockery of the nation in the eyes of the world! Never mind that Old Joe Biden has been bumbling around on the global stage for three and a half years now, demonstrating the depth of his dementia and the endless credulity of a sizable segment of the American electorate. We’ll be told that as a prisoner, Trump cannot possibly serve as president. There would even be calls for the Republicans to replace him with someone acceptable to the political establishment — say, Nikki Haley.
And so Merchan, according to McCarthy, “admonished the parties to prepare for the court to move ahead with the imposition of sentence on Sept. 18.… If we may read the tea leaves, Merchan has already decided that he will deny Trump’s immunity motion. There is, moreover, a high likelihood that he will impose a prison sentence against Trump right after that.” And then watch for the calls that, in the name of supposedly impartial justice, the left’s Emmanuel Goldstein must serve his time behind bars.
Merchan– Harlot for Harris and Merchant of Death for American democracy.
Meanwhile the Real Criminals(Soros, Gates, Schwabe Bill and Hillary Obama and Biden)and Free and can so what they please with America and Americans and the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders cover up for them
You left out, arguably, the biggest criminal of all: Obama.
“There would even be calls for the Republicans to replace him with someone acceptable to the political establishment — say, Nikki Haley.”
She is a member of WEF. However she did support Israel when she was in the UN but that’s a global cabal too.
Trump will join the J6 prisoners who have been kept in solitary confinement for years without trial.
God help us should that be the case.
God help The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization, if that should happen.
Merchan will get his.
And given the fact that Muslim terrorists still want to flatten New York and Washington, New Yorkers and washingtonians will end up in sorrow for their crapping on Americans. …
After 9/11, Americans from all over “fly-over” country came to their aid, only to be crapped on by New Yorkers. They got more brazen year by year.
Now they have jails full of American political prisoners.
Americans will not help them the next time a group of Muslims slip through.
How long till the Military is forced to execute Order 66 on the rest of us?
“any man can get justice, no matter the color of his skin, contents of his wallet, or nature of his political opinions.”
Yup, and criminals like Donold are getting just that, as much as the Supreme Court will allow anyway.
Thank you my friend.
As if political persecution of an American patriot is justice. Only a stinking pile of SHIT would consider political persecution designed to benefit Dirtbagocrats as “just.” What low level piece of toilet shit could support the Dirtbagocrats after the last three and a half years of SHIT in America? SERIOUSLY?
Flush yourself. You don’t deserve to live in America. America is my country, not yours. Get the fuck out. Go to Afghanistan, or Buttfuckistan, or wherever. You don’t belong here. I f I ever met you, I’d kick your pussy left-wing ass.
It’s a good job he’s not a British muslim because the thought crime police would be on your case.
Yeah, you can’t even eat a ham sandwich there without getting arrested for “islamophobia,”
They do eat spotted dicks, though. I don’t even want to know what those are but I know I don’t want to eat suet with sugar, much less a dick with spots.
If Trump goes to prison, then the left had better prepare for the second American Civil War.
That my friend is exactly what we want.
You really are an idiot!
Any male can get a dick up his ass, no matter the color of his skin, contents of his wallet or nature of his sociopolitical opinions.
You’re living proof.
What will be the reaction of the Trump faithful and the American believers in justice? That is the important question. We have not had a president for 4 years and have gotten by. Any pressure on the system will break it.
I would expect that Merchan will need to go into hiding. I hope he is prepared for that.
If that’s not election interference please tell me what is.
Sad but true, the “left” will do anything to get Trump.
Let’s drop the wording of the :”left” and just address them for what they truly are which is Communists. Americans need to wake up and not allow another election to be stolen.
There HAS to be an AUTHORITY higher than the most corrupt judge in history! WHY has there not been a MEDIA OUTCRY of INJUSTICE??? I’m sure if the Jury had been ALL MEDIA that PRESIDENT TRUMP would be facing the DEATH penalty – and not by the “incompetence” of the SS!!
Media outcry? The democraps have the mainstream media feeding out of the palm of their hands. There is plenty of outcry from other sources of media (here, for example), but they are dismissed as fake news and conspiracy theorists
And of course, what do most Americans believe in? The mainstream media, of course. Millions of people profess to hate Trump, yet they can’t name a single thing he did that was bad for America. They also cannot name a single good thing that Joe or Kamala has done for America, but they will stupidly vote for cackling Kamala this fall.
Same here in Canada. It’s tragic, and that widespread level of ignorance will be the downfall of our once proud nations.
Translate ignorance to cowardice. Sorry, but we have to speak up and challenge these authoritative pirates.
Hyena Harris and stolen valor loony toons Walz. Two no=doubter marxists working overtime to assure the U.S. becomes a province of their CCP masters.
Well let’s see now. First Kamalalala dropped out of the 2020 primaries before she got one vote. Then she became the presumptive nominee without going through the 2024 primaries, so no votes there either. It looks like she simply becomes president without an election being held in November because Trump will be in jail. I guess the DemoComs are protecting muh Democracy. Filthy effing bastards.
Move along folks. Nothing to see here.
Elections? ELECTIONS!?!. We dun-need no stinkin’ elections.
The person who needs jailing is Merchan….or deportation.
Don’t give the game away.
Unless the Democ-rats quickly “Jeffery Epstein” (i.e., murder) President Trump in the lock-up, their strategy is once again (Beep Beep) self-defeating. Like any confined person, inmate President Trump would have a right to federal Habeas Corpus review which, in these circumstances of manifest injustice, the Supreme Court could take up immediately. The Great Writ basically allows anybody arguably held in violation of constitutional rights to seek court review. In the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the Great Writ for obvious reasons but the court never acquiesced in Lincoln’s constitutional usurpation. In its most recent term, The Supreme Court decided that a former president cannot be prosecuted for crimes based upon his official acts. Evidence of President Trump’s official acts were presented, over objections, to the jury that convicted him. Thus, the Supreme Court would be justified in ordering DJT’s release pending resolution of his federal Habeas Corpus appeal immediately after his bogus incarceration. But for his Trump Derangement Syndrome, A legal beagle like Andy McCarthy would recognize that.
I think there’s no question that the Democrats want Trump dead and are prepared to murder him in prison. All they have to do is get him into Riker’s Island for a few days. If Merchan chooses a sentence that means Riker’s is where Trump would be taken – I believe it would have to be less than 18 months – that would mean Merchan is in on the murder plot. There’s no guarantee the Federal courts would consider a Habeas Corpus petition in time, although the Supreme Court could meet in emergency session and order Trump freed on his own recognizance.
It’s long past time for the Republican Party to start planning how to resist the government of the State of New York and cause them enough pain so they reconsider their plot.
If you don’t stand for something the you will fall for anything. If Trump is imprisoned and subsequently murdered, it will prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Americans will tolerate anything. Even the transition from a Constitutional Republic to a “benevolent” Marxist totalitarian government.
From that time onward, the Marxocrats will implement a new holiday: “Death to the US Constitution Day.” Every year there will columns of be brown shirted, goose stepping Marxocrats marching down Pennsylvania Ave. to the capitol mall where they will line up,raise their right hand and loudly chant: “Seig Heil, Seig Heil, Seig Heil….” while they burn a giant copy of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
That crotch sniffing democRat POS slamdunk would certainly get his jollies and spank his monkey” while watching it on Pay-Per-View.
Yes, prisons and jails are very dangerous for decent people. Most prisoners are anything BUT decent. There are good one but we were a distinct minority.
Was it a thought crime?
Yes. I pissed off my ex wife.
Four or five times (it seemed like five hundred) and the only “crime” I was convicted of was “disorderly conduct” for arguing with the psycho. The last time I checked, arguments are always mutual, but she didn’t get arrested.
Omaha Nebraska. What a shithole, unlike the rest of the state. All a bitch has to do to get a guy arrested there is call the police and say come arrest so and so because he’s “bad.”
And I spent four to five months in jail each time waiting for trials. They charged me higher bail than some chick who’d stabbed her boyfriend, and she’d been convicted of doing that multiple times! And will they take a credit or debit card for bail? Of course not, because they want to railroad you. As if I carry around $20,000 in my wallet. Fucking scumbags.
California catches a lot of insults from most other Americans but at least men have rights here.
If I were to ever see one of those crooked Omaha cops, judges or DAs here in San Jose, I would rip their heads off and shit down their neck stumps.
The Republican party does not want to win, that’s become obvious. I’ll call it an IQ stand down. Buddhist passivity is not what’s called for in time of programmed chaos/fear. I want a refund of my donation to the Nunes re-election (LOL he bailed to Truth Social). Saboteurs are hired for the campaign. Lee Atwater 2.0 is needed, nowhere to be found.
We all need to understand what the Fundamental transformation of America really means.
It means the criminals and terrorists will take over.
They already have. We just have to be honest with ourselves and brave enough to admit it.
Obama’s vision and words. The communist takeover of our mighty nation.
And not a shot fired in anger or protest. Benjamin Franklin warned that this could happen. And now, here we are on the verge of………..
Has Front Page Magazine been taken over by liberals that won’t allow comments?
Shhhh be quiet man.
I’ve been censored many times by FPM for coming down hard of the dems and not being polite about it. How can you (or why should you) be polite and cordial with people who are trying to destroy our country and its Constitution?
Trump may be losing the Mandate of Heaven for getting soft on abortion. Farewell, Mr. Trump. You were a great fighter and much better than over half your country deserved.
He’s not going that soft on abortion; he’s trying to be more subtle than the “let’s pass an unconstitutional federal abortion ban” crowd who are doing such a disservice to the pro-life movement. And no, I don’t think he’s lost the mandate of Heaven. If you were in charge up there and were willing to interfere in mortal affairs, whom would you choose, Trump or Harris, who favors abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy?
If I were in charge, I’d give Kamala the presidency, turn over most of USA to Satan, and make a new region in USA where everyone with some light in them left could prosper.
Trump opposes infanticide. I guess you missed all three or four hundred of his rallies.
America behind bars.
The CCP takeover of America is finally understood.
So, what should we do about this? Vote even harder?
Ha ha ha ha I thought you were serious for a minute there.
Start killing people. It’s inevitable.
That Merchan varmint does one hell of a Roland Freisler impersonation, doesn’t he?
He will because he can, otherwise, why conspire with players going all the way to the White House if the end goal wasn’t prison time?
If we traced their membership and support for the ’80s CPUSA front groups, teaming up with the Soviet KGB to take over Central America, you will find they defended and protected COMMUNIST SANDINISTA DANIEL ORTEGA, still in power since ’79, who arrests all political opponents since they are “a threat to our Democracy.”
If you ever watch real crime shows like Dateline, First 48 Hours, criminals who commit rapes and murders get time ranging from decades to life. Very rarely, 200 YEARS, but this is Trump, so they’ll make sure it’s in the hundreds to better their argument. In the meantime, murderers get out after a few years. What Trump did is worse than murder????
That’s what the leftists are waiting for. A number. The bigger the better. They’ve gotten a lot of mileage out “convicted felon” so they’ll take it to the house with “sentenced to 100 years” and Merchan is there to deliver what they want.
Why is Merchan still alive?
He isn’t. He is voodoo undead.
Well, we know at least his brain is dead because he’s a Democrat.
Because our side does not believe in terroristic violence. A revolt against the New York State Government would, however, be justified. And if Trump survives long enough to be elected, Federal indictments of Merchan and Bragg for violating Trump’s civil rights under color of law would not be amiss.
It looks like the islamo-leftist clique doesn’t know what to do to make Doald Trump more popular. – therefore to facilitate his November 2024 election Next step, a death sentence, maybe?
Trump’s mug shot will become the most famous picture in all of American history. Harris and what’s-his-name will become quickly forgotten. We, the People, will vote Trump into office, no matter what that office looks like.
Imagine PRESIDENT Trump, in orange jump-suit, handcuffs and leg shackles, being escorted by Prison Guards, who are escorted by the Secret Service, down the aisle at a joint session of Congress, to give the State of the Union address!
Then, after his term in office, he pardons himself. The Left would go ballistic! The greatest display of geopolitical affairs since Jesus entered Jerusalem on Passover, 30 AD!
Maybe I have misunderstood, but I read he could STILL serve as POTUS if incarcerated. It would make for some ludicrous machinations of the Left and his Prison Guards. Laughable in their absurdity! Who has final authority, the prison guards or the Secret Service? Will the prison guards be allowed to be armed? Will he be escorted in shackles to the “Situation Room” when/if the balloon goes up? Will foreign Leaders be meeting Trump from behind “Visitor’s windows” in the prison, or will they need to build a multi-million dollar “Prison White House” to hold receptions for foreign dignitaries? This would be SO ENJOYABLE to watch! The rest of the world will giggle themselves silly!
There is of course no precedent for the situation you describe because America never resembled the Soviet Union until recently. However, the idea that the judicial power of the State of New York extends to the incarceration of a sitting President is so absurd that the courts (at least the Supreme Court) would have to order his release pending appeal, if they had not already done so.
However, we shouldn’t imagine the Democrats are going to take that chance. As I commented above, if the Democrats send Trump to prison, I believe they surely intend to murder him there.
Leave that for me to think about, I don’t think that’s allowed.
You do the crime you do the time. That’s the American way.
Eat shit commie
not for Democrats…. Troll, do yo need a list of their crimes? What? You’re too high to read the list.
Such simplemindedness is abhorrent.
We’re still thinking there will be an election …
… not sayin’ there won’t be …
But so much has happened since February 2020 that we never thought could happen …
… nothing should come as a surprise now.
I don’t even care any more, This country is a shit hole
You’d better care…things can get much, much worse than this.!
The Holocaust manifested the veneer of civilization so thin and fragile that repetition was possible.” — Sam Kaltman
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” — Martin Niemöller
The RINO’s keep floating Niki Haley as a way to save America from Trump. This means they (Romney, Pompeo, and the whole bunch) are hiding in the sidelines to see what plan they can device to oppose us.
I agree. But she would be running to lose like McCain and Romney. Think back, those men never tried to win. They lost by design and probably got some payoff. At the time, I was disappointed, but wow, neither was any good. We have truly had no choice except for Trump in many years.
A president in prison could parson himself, no? Any Democrat win must not be certified due to election interference. Even if we stupidly agree Crooks was a lone nut shooter and we ignore all the weird SS failures, we do know these indictments and trials have been bizarre partisan law fare including the timing of them.They’ve put themselves in a box. If Trump wins, it’s despite them. If he doesn’t it is invalid.
Again, no Democrat win is valid.
The problem is that a president can only pardon Federal crimes, not state level crimes. He is charged with new York crimes in new York, however if elected he could order the military or federal Marshall’s to secure his release.
The jurisdictional issues are mind numbing. And remember when a certain state arrested an FBI sniper for shooting a member of the weaver family?
FEDERAL SUPREMACY BABY!
This verdict of the lower court will be overturned because the 34 charges are broken down as: 11 invoices for legal services, 11 checks paid for legal services and 12 ledger entries for legal expenses – that’s it. These are still just dead misdemeanor offenses where the clock has run out to charge Trump on them. The felonies of violation of federal election laws and violations of tax laws aren’t even on the list of convicted charges. Judge Merchan’s jury instructions violated Trump’s 6th amendment right of an a unanimous jury verdict. Merchant’s jury instructions were that the jury doesn’t need to be unanimous on all charges to find Trump guilty!
Also these 34 bookkeeping misdemeanors do not equate to a felony! This violates Trump’s 5th amendment right, where he cannot be found guilty of a crime he has not been officially charged of commiting. The DA’s sole witness to the bookkeeping charges was Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer. The DA never brought a witness to the stand to prove how bookkeeping entries were linked to violating federal election laws. Oh by the way, only a U.S. attorney has the power to prosecute violations of federal election laws not a local DA.
This entire case stinks to high hell and Judge Merchan damn well knows he’ll be overturned on appeal, so come September 18th, he’ll just fine Trump and be done with it. Then Trump’s lawyer will file an appeal and the lower court’s verdict will be overturned. Merchan knows this was just a fake show trial, he would be really stupid to sentence Trump to prison because then Trump can appeal to the Supreme Court due to his 5th & 6th constitutional rights being violated. Any judge sending a defendant to jail, where the defendant’s constitutional rights have been violated would see his/her career end very quickly!
The bit I don’t get is why can’t the democraps understand what will happen if Merchan does put Trump in jail ..
here’s 50% of the population that will riot, burn democrap offices, billboards, advertising, everything democrap
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, in every city and in every little town. And that doesn’t even touch on the terrorising that will go on with so called Democrap employees ..
Of course the democraps have assisted by reducing the police force which would most likely be “late” or “look the other way” …
Merchan probably has more SS than Trump, if he doesn’t, start thinking about it, it only takes one person to pull a trigger & when you piss off (to that extent) 175 million people a few are going to want blood ….
Where the hell is the Supreme Court?!!! Don’t tell me they can’t intervene and stop this. Merchan is so obviously abusing his authority to unjustly prosecute a political opponent, it’s NOT rocket science.
You don’t need to be a lawyer to know bullshit when you see it. What the courts are doing to Trump are monstrous crimes, unjust prosecution, falsifying evidence, stacking misdemeanors to equal felonies, withholding evidence, these evil Democrat bastards should all be in jail.
Where are the Republicans?!! Why are they not grinding the country to a full stop until these evil rat bastard Democrat judges and prosecutors are all in jail? But that would take balls, something scarce as hen’s teeth amongst Republicans.
Merchan, the agent of evil, is unstoppable. Perhaps he will impose a bigger fine on Trump that Engeron did.
If he actually hands down a jail sentence, he will live to rue the day. Either way, Trump’s numbers should go up, but if widespread civil disobedience breaks out, it’s game over for everyone.
Stunning that the country has reached this point. God help us.
First they came for the wealthy popular presidential candidate, I wasn’t wealthy, popular or a presidential candidate so I said nothing, did nothing…
The Declaration went on to argue that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
And so it goes, you will think the riots of Marxist BLM WERE A CAKE WALK…
and those who are the useful idiots, like you, will find out soon enough what freedom loving people are capable of doing. I prefer to die fighting for the freedoms guaranteed in our US Constitution rather than be a slave to a Marxist, totalitarian evil.
And you, who espouse this, clearly do not understand that if they are allowed to complete their transformational goals, you will be enslaved like everyone else. You will be silent according to their dictates, or dead.
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