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Opinion The best argument to lock up Trump: Merchan must protect the judiciary

Trump has relentlessly smeared witnesses, jurors and the judge. Incarceration is the only just punishment.1/2

By Jennifer Rubin

Gossip Columnist|

June 4, 2024 at 7:45 a.m. EDT

Seasoned legal minds differ on whether felon and former president Donald Trump should receive prison time for his conviction on 34 counts. However, considering the context of Trump’s crimes and his propensity to threaten judges, juries and witnesses, significant prison time is the only punishment that fits the crime and this convict. (98% of legal scholars and lawyers believe this a joke and a stain on the courts, Jennifer, be honest)

Trump’s crime of falsification of business records is considered a Class E felony — the lowest-level felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. (Punishment for each count would run concurrently, so the maximum would be four years, not 136 years.) Some, but certainly not most, of the convictions on these types of charges do result in prison time. In “Trying Trump: A Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial,”Norm Eisen examined(who made up this crime) almost 10,000 prosecutions for falsifying business records in New York since 2015, finding that about 10 percent resulted in prison time. While Trump’s status as a first-time offender would not exempt him from prison time, it normally would weigh in favor of a lighter sentence such as probation only or minimal prison time. But is this a normal case?

Fraudulent record-keeping charges routinely get elevated to felonies (contrary to uninformed critics who thought this was an exotic maneuver), but Justice Juan Merchanhas already recognized Trump’s crime was especially significant because of its momentous consequences: concealing possibly outcome-determinative information from the voters in 2016. (Even Trump cronies recognized the magnitude of their chicanery. “What have we done?” attorney Keith Davidson texted the editor of the National Enquirer after the election.)

Merchan wrote in a pretrial ruling that “while it is true that the charges involve the lowest level felony and no one suffered physical harm, it can hardly be said that the allegations are not severe.” He stressed: “The People claim that the Defendant paid an individual $130,000 to conceal a sexual encounter in an effort to influence the 2016 Presidential election and then falsified 34 business records to cover up the payoff. In this Court’s view, those are serious allegations.” And, therefore, the convictions are serious.

In addition to the gravity of the offense, the factors weighing most heavily in favor of a significant prison sentence are Trump’s conduct and character. It is not “simply” that Trump has multiple civil judgments against him (e.g., sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, inflating his property values and misusing charitable funds) or that he spearheaded a violent insurrection to overturn an election or even that his conduct resulted in multiple contempt citations in Merchan’s and Justice Arthur Engoron’s courtrooms. In this case, character and conduct also encompass how Trump treats the criminal justice system. (It’s illegal to include prior cases in the evidence of this case)

From that perspective, imprisonment may be the only effective penalty because of Trump’s defective character. Chump-change fines for contempt during the trial did not slow him down. So long as he remains at large, with unfettered access to social media, he poses a threat to the people he attacks and the judicial system he maligns. Incarceration is the only means of holding Trump accountable for his wholesale attacks on the rule of law that continue to this day.

(Jennifer this whole article is threats, smears and illegal recommendations, you should be sued for defamation!)…

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Merchan should take into account that Trump has hurled threats (telling the truth of how corrupt the judge, his family and lawyers are threats, according to this dummy)and smears (once again, truth is not a threat or a smears) at witnesses, jurors and the judge (including his family). He also should consider the racist (here we go again, if someone is black, its racism to criticize his corruption and stupidity) attacks and implicit threat of violence directed at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The felon who will stand before him has tried to intimidate witnesses and delegitimize the New York courts as corrupt. In continuing to incite his mob (that now threatens the safety of the anonymous jurors) and demean the courts as “rigged,” Trump does far more damage to the people of New York (not to mention the country) than he did with any single criminal act. The potential that New Yorkers will be less willing to serve as jurors after watching the vitriol unleashed on these 12 people could be among Trump’s most enduring injuries to the court system.

Taking a step back, Trump’s tactics are familiar to those who study fascism. “Fascism (KEK) encourages contempt for democratic institutions, particularly elections, and the rule of law,” the Public Leadership Institute explained in a 2022 essay synthesizing a number of works. “Instead, it calls on the majority group to turn over power to a strongman and his lieutenants, while glorifying the use of violence in support of fascist myths and goals.”

From historical and modern examples, we know that illiberal movements “have as a priority to control the judiciary, because only by doing so it is possible for them to consolidate an authoritarian electoral model.” (Oh you mean like WAPO working to destroy the Supreme Court because you don’t like the majority or Conservative?) When independence of the courts is eroded and the leader and his cult accept as “fair” only the outcomes that favor their cause, they can proceed to take a wrecking ball to other democratic institutions. (The Supreme Court’s transparent effort to block Trump’s Jan. 6 trial before the election shows that the MAGA effort to control the judiciary is well underway.)

With other criminal cases against Trump delayed, Merchan alone has the responsibility for the foreseeable future to mete out punishment that is appropriate for Trump’s crimes and sufficient to protect the justice system. The voters ultimately will have to reject fascism at the ballot box, but at present Merchan must exercise his discretion in sentencing Trump to actual incarceration for at least a year to shelter the independent judiciary — judges, jurors and witnesses — threatened by this felon and his rhetoric. If he does not, he puts New Yorkers and the Constitution at risk.

(She must have stayed up for four days worrying and writing this. Bizarro, imbalanced liar. Be afraid Jennifer, be very, very afraid of your own crimes)

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Mike Davis

@mrddmia

My Statement on Steve Bannon's Prison Sentence:

We have had constitutional executive privilege for 250 yearsgoing back to George Washingtonso the President of the United States can receive candid, confidential advice from his advisors without fear their advice will get publicly aired before courts or Congress.

President Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland have shamefully destroyed this, in their partisan quest to politicize and weaponize the Biden Justice Department to go after President Trump and his top aides.

Peter Navarro, Trump's top White House trade adviser, is currently sitting in federal prison.

And Steve Bannon, a top Trump outside presidential adviser, is heading to federal prison on July 1.

Biden and his aides are taking off the political battlefield two of Trump's top surrogates before the 2024 presidential election.

Constitutional executive privilege is foundational to the separation of powers, the proper functioning of the presidency, and thus survival of the Republic.

Partisan activists in the Biden White House and Justice Department pretend they can disregard this simply because someone didn't fill out the right form or check the right box.

This is all part of a broader criminal conspiracy by Biden, his aides, and his allies to politicize and weaponize law enforcement and intel agencies to violate the constitutional rights of Trump, his aides, and his allies for the purposes of partisan lawfare and election interference.

These are republic-ending tactics.

On Day 1, the Trump 47 Justice Department must open a federal criminal probe on this Biden Democrat criminal conspiracy, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242.

Revenge is best served cold.

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