T. Becket Adams
@BecketAdams
I thought we had laws against cruel and unusual torture.
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Adam Blickstein
@AdamBlickstein
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BREAKING: Judge Merchan sentences Donald Trump to 3-6 months with the NY Mets
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1796308465553490197
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Another Squeaky attenshun grab….
SethA still rollin' it out.
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13 Trump directed his legal team to re-victimize in public a woman who he pretty clearly abused, and that would not sit well with the judge. Nor—candidly—would all the disingenuous abuse Trump directed his lawyers to heap on a man Trump knew was telling the truth: Cohen.
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14 There’ll be a presentencing investigation in this case, and it may paint a picture of a sociopath who doesn’t believe rule of law applies to him, has been a scofflaw for decades, and remorselessly incited an armed rebellion against the United States in January of 2021.
150/ What I expect Judge Merchan won’t take into account in a traceable way is that Trump tried to endanger the life of his—Merchan’s—daughter. Just so, he may think Trump directed his lawyers to repeatedly violate the Rules of Professional Conduct, but that can’t be confirmed.
151/ He also won’t take into account in any appreciable way—in any way that would aid or hinder Trump’s interests in sentencing—that Trump is a politician, that Trump is a popular (among some) public figure, and that he is a current candidate for President of the United States.
152/ What’s less clear is if he’ll take into account the indications in the testimony that Trump is a career criminal—that the case before this court was merely one that somehow slipped through to law enforcement and the courts, but that Trump’s illicit conduct is pathological.
153/ I do want to take a moment, especially in the face of all those who have a disastrously wrong sense of how Trump biographers and political journalists are feeling in this moment, to add that I do not think this is a moment for celebration.
Why? For many, many key reasons.
154/ First, there’s nothing to celebrate when the criminal justice system merely works as advertised. What happened today is the very least we can expect from our criminal justice system, and if we celebrate what happened here we are—in a way—pretending that normality is special.
155/ Second, the simple fact that Donald Trump is almost 78 and these are his first criminal convictions actually underscores how broken our system is. In other words, the fact that it worked today only reminds us that it did not work as to this defendant for the last 40 years.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1796309195009962340
Only bots can do it that fast.
Danks for the statistics lesson.
FYI
Jasmine Crockett
@JasmineForUS
Whew chile! Guilty on all counts in a state case! No matter what happens in November, he cannot “undo” this verdict. I know many are celebrating & I get it, but my heart fucking breaks for our country! How did we get here?! When did we stop requiring some darned decency of the most powerful person on Earth?!
The grand jurors, the prosecutors, the judge, the witnesses & this jury deserve so much more than they will receive. This was a brave undertaking in an unnecessarily violent & politically charged America.
FYI, today was a win for the rule of law!
https://twitter.com/JasmineForUS/status/1796290619997827074