Trump Seeks to Halt His Criminal Sentencing in New York

[Mikeoxenormous]

No. Tyrants are those who would want Merchan to need state police protection the rest of his life.

Camps are for criminal elements. You know, like the camps Arizona MAGAboi Joe Arpaio

Tent City, infamous home of inmates who wear pink underwear and major piece of Arpaio's legacy, is closing​

Oh no, not the pink underwear. Bet a lot of those Democrat voters stopped doing crime for how petulant they were made to look.

 

[Rambunctious]

Is MAGA that dangerous?

There are crazy people everywhere and I'm sure Merchan has received threats so he needs protection...
But did you forget the two attempts on Trump's life by libs like you?...

 

[Dante]

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Well then, maybe the deep state and establishment should just cease their unconstitutional activities?

Jennifer Rubin

Juan Merchan defends the rule of law​

Trump will be a sentenced felon after all.

Despite previewing a sentence without real punishment, Merchan, to his credit, issued a blistering opinion reaffirming the foundation of our legal system. “The significance of the fact that the verdict was handed down by a unanimous jury of 12 of Defendant’s peers, after trial, cannot possibly be overstated,” Merchan wrote. “Indeed, the sanctity of a jury verdict and the deference that must be accorded to it, is a bedrock principle in our Nation’s jurisprudence.” No conspiracy, no rogue district attorney delivered the verdict. This was a jury of Trump’s peers whom he and his counsel approved in voir dire.
Merchan also gave the back of the hand to the notion that presidents-elect enjoy immunity. (We have, as the saying goes, only one president at a time.) Merchan summed up:

Essentially, what Defendant asks this Court to do is to create, or at least recognize, two types of Presidential immunity, then select one as grounds to dismiss the instant matter. First, Defendant seeks application of “President-elect immunity,” which presumably implicates all actions of a President-elect before taking the oath of office. Thus, he argues that since no sitting President can be the subject of any stage of a criminal proceeding, so too should a President-elect be afforded the same protections. Second, as the People characterize in their Response, Defendant seeks an action by the Court akin to a “retroactive” form of Presidential immunity, thus giving a defendant the ability to nullify verdicts lawfully rendered prior to a defendant being elected President by virtue of being elected President. It would be an abuse of discretion for this Court to create, or recognize, either of these two new forms of Presidential immunity in the absence of legal authority. The Defendant has presented no valid argument to convince this Court otherwise.

Lastly, Merchan declined to dismiss the case in the “interests of justice.” In some of the harshest language invoked against Trump by any court, Merchan wrote:

Here, 12 jurors unanimously found Defendant guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records with the intent to defraud, which included an intent to commit or conceal a conspiracy to promote a presidential election by unlawful means. It was the premediated and continuous deception by the leader of the free world that is the gravamen of this offense. To vacate this verdict on the grounds that the charges are insufficiently serious given the position Defendant once held, and is about to assume again, would constitute a disproportionate result and cause immeasurable damage to the citizenry’s confidence in the Rule of Law.

(Merchan also noted that “a total of 22 witnesses testified at trial, and over 500 exhibits [were] admitted, all of which supported the jury’s verdict.”)

 

[Dante]

There are crazy people everywhere and I'm sure Merchan has received threats so he needs protection...
But did you forget the two attempts on Trump's life by libs like you?...

Merchan demolished Trump’s argument that his good character (!) justified dismissal:

Defendant’s disdain for the Third Branch of government, whether state or federal, in New York or elsewhere, is a matter of public record. Indeed, Defendant has gone to great lengths to broadcast on social media and other forums his lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole. In the case at bar, despite repeated admonitions, this Court was left with no choice but to find the Defendant guilty of 10 counts of Contempt for his repeated violations of this Court’s Order Restricting Extrajudicial Statements (“Statements Order”), findings which by definition mean that Defendant willingly ignored the lawful mandates of this Court. An Order which Defendant continues to attack as “unlawful” and “unconstitutional,” despite the fact that it has been challenged and upheld by the Appellate Division First Department and the New York Court of Appeals, no less than eight times.

Merchan drily observed that “Defendant’s character and history vis-a-vis the Rule of Law and the Third Branch of government” hardly weigh in favor of canceling the verdict.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/06/merchan-sentence-trump-felon/

 

[Rambunctious]

Merchan demolished Trump’s argument that his good character (!) justified dismissal:

Merchan drily observed that “Defendant’s character and history vis-a-vis the Rule of Law and the Third Branch of government” hardly weigh in favor of canceling the verdict.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/06/merchan-sentence-trump-felon/

Merchan lost... he can't lock up Trump and its killing him....

 

[Dante]

You do know that Congress Democrats using tax payer monies had paid hush money to interns those Democrats abused? Seems like you are totally for Democrats being above the law.

Rep says Congress paid out $15M to silence sex harassment victims

The US congresswoman who testified that current members of Congress are known sex harassers said Tuesday night that $15 million in hush money has been paid to accusers. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.…

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Ruth Marcus

Hush money judge on Trump: ‘Continuous deception’​

The judge’s words cannot be wiped out — no matter how many times Trump cries witch hunt

I have been skeptical of the legal theory under which Trump was prosecuted for hiding his hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, the subject of the New York case brought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D). But there is no question about the offensiveness — and seriousness — of Trump’s underlying conduct, seeking to keep the relationship hidden from voters during the 2016 campaign​

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Trump’s lawyers argued that the case should be dismissed because, among other things, his alleged conduct paled in comparison to homicide, sexual assault and other crimes prosecuted in New York. Merchan wasn’t having any of that.​

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“Seriousness and harm are not measured solely by the level of violence inflicted or the extent of financial harm. Seriousness can be gauged by considering the significance of the act under the unique circumstances of the case, as well as by the harm to society as a whole,” Merchan wrote.​

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The jury, he noted, unanimously found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in pursuit of a conspiracy to win the presidential election through unlawful means. “It was the premediated and continuous deception by the leader of the free world that is the gravamen of this offense,” he wrote. “To vacate this verdict on the grounds that the charges are insufficiently serious given the position Defendant once held, and is about to assume again, would … cause immeasurable damage to the citizenry’s confidence in the Rule of Law.”​

 

[Rambunctious]

Ruth Marcus

Hush money judge on Trump: ‘Continuous deception’​

The judge’s words cannot be wiped out — no matter how many times Trump cries witch hunt

Trump is officially the president elect of the soon to be great again United states....

 

[Dante]

Merchan lost... he can't lock up Trump and its killing him....

“Defendant has gone to great lengths to broadcast on social media and other forums his lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole,” he wrote. “In the case at bar, despite repeated admonitions, this Court was left with no choice but to find the Defendant guilty of 10 counts of Contempt.”

 

[MisterBeale]

Jennifer Rubin

Juan Merchan defends the rule of law​

Trump will be a sentenced felon after all.

Despite previewing a sentence without real punishment, Merchan, to his credit, issued a blistering opinion reaffirming the foundation of our legal system. “The significance of the fact that the verdict was handed down by a unanimous jury of 12 of Defendant’s peers, after trial, cannot possibly be overstated,” Merchan wrote. “Indeed, the sanctity of a jury verdict and the deference that must be accorded to it, is a bedrock principle in our Nation’s jurisprudence.” No conspiracy, no rogue district attorney delivered the verdict. This was a jury of Trump’s peers whom he and his counsel approved in voir dire.
Merchan also gave the back of the hand to the notion that presidents-elect enjoy immunity. (We have, as the saying goes, only one president at a time.) Merchan summed up:


Lastly, Merchan declined to dismiss the case in the “interests of justice.” In some of the harshest language invoked against Trump by any court, Merchan wrote:


(Merchan also noted that “a total of 22 witnesses testified at trial, and over 500 exhibits [were] admitted, all of which supported the jury’s verdict.”)

 

[Dante]

Trump is officially the president elect...

Joe Biden is President of the United States of America

 

[Dante]

‘What has changed?’ An awkward Jan. 6 anniversary.​

“What has changed? Has the GOP learned their lesson? I don’t think anything has changed,” said Claudine Schneider, a former Republican congresswoman from Rhode Island who worked against Trump in the latest election, including by joining a lawsuit to keep him off the ballot in Colorado. “There’s a return of corruption, lying continues, blaming, cheating, violent rhetoric. I don’t think the GOP learned their lessons.”​

 

[Rambunctious]

Joe Biden is President of the United States of America

Yeah but he doesn't know it....

 

[Dante]

Merchan lost... he can't lock up Trump and its killing him....

Trump lost. He's a convicted felon.

Merchan is a judge. He had no part in Trump being investigated, indicted, and charged. The case came before his court.

 

[Dante]

Yeah but he doesn't know it....

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.

Trump sat stone-faced while the verdict was read as cheering from the street below could be heard in the hallway on the courthouse’s 15th floor where the decision was revealed after more than nine hours of deliberations.

 

[WEATHER53]

Libs reassure themselves by reposting their lies

 

[Polishprince]

Trump Seeks to Halt His Criminal Sentencing in New York​

No matter how many times I see articles like this it jars the mind. It is so jarring because it is difficult to truly grasp what is wrong with a republic like the US of A, when a convicted felon gets elected to the highest office in the land.

A Manhattan judge has already indicated that he will spare Donald J. Trump from jail time, but the president-elect is seeking to avoid the symbolic blow of the criminal proceeding.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has signaled that he plans to mount a full-scale legal offensive to stave off his criminal sentencing in New York, seeking a last-minute reprieve before becoming the first president who is a convicted felon.​

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Although that request is most likely doomed — the judge, Juan M. Merchan, was the one who scheduled the sentencing — Mr. Trump’s lawyers disclosed in the filing that they planned to escalate their effort. If the judge does not pause the sentencing by 2 p.m. on Monday, the filing said, Mr. Trump will “seek an emergency appellate review.”​

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Hoping to persuade a New York appeals court to intervene, Mr. Trump’s lawyers plan to file a civil action against Justice Merchan and seek to freeze the sentencing, according to the filing. It is unclear when they will file that action with the appellate court, but it could come as soon as Monday.​

This is so shocking. Yet, America has now accepted it as the new normal. Since 2015, America has been primed to become numb to what once would have been seen as horrifically abnormal. What was truly unacceptable in public life before the Trump Tower Escalator event, is now seen by many as acceptable.

People have a right to appeal decisions made by Kangaroo Courts in this country.

Why do libs have a problem with it?

Why doesn't Judge Merchan just do the right thing and recuse himself because he was never impartial? His daughter raised literally millions for the Trump's enemies, and that was known before the case started.

He can declare a mistrial and restart the whole bullshit trial so there are no doubts about its fairness.

 

[Concerned American]

It is so jarring because it is difficult to truly grasp what is wrong with a republic like the US of A, when a convicted felon gets elected to the highest office in the land.

He is not a convicted felon. Try telling the truth for a change. Typical democrat.

 

[Dante]

Libs reassure themselves by reposting their lies

The various claims of evidence alleging a stolen 2020 election have been exhaustively investigated and litigated. Judges heard claims of illegal voting and found they were without merit.

 

[Dante]

People have a right to appeal decisions made by Kangaroo Courts in this country.

Why do libs have a problem with it?

Why doesn't Judge Merchan just do the right thing and recuse himself because he was never impartial? His daughter raised literally millions for the Trump's enemies, and that was known before the case started.

He can declare a mistrial and restart the whole bullshit trial so there are no doubts about its fairness.

They tried to prove Trump’s fraud claims. They failed — and got in trouble.​

Trump’s voter-fraud push has led to increasing legal jeopardy, but largely for those who flouted the law as they tried to substantiate it.

October 30, 2024​

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Four years after the 2020 election, there is still zero proof of the widespread voter fraud that Donald Trump claimed stole the election from him.​

What there is is a growing trail of Republicans and Trump allies who bought into Trump’s lies — and even tried to ferret out evidence to back him up. Instead, they helped show that the system worked, and they got into trouble for their own election malfeasance.​

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The latest apparent example might take the cake. It involves Larry L. Savage Jr., a GOP precinct committeeman and former congressional candidate in Indiana who turned himself in to police Tuesday.​

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According to charging documents, Savage attended a test of four voting machines in Madison County, Indiana, earlier this month. That test of 136 ballots wound up two ballots short in the final tabulation. Savage went on to say that the count was messed up, and he left the event and joined a Facebook Live event where he talked about the miscount.​

 

[Dante]

Trump Seeks to Halt His Criminal Sentencing in New York​

No matter how many times I see articles like this it jars the mind. It is so jarring because it is difficult to truly grasp what is wrong with a republic like the US of A, when a convicted felon gets elected to the highest office in the land.

A Manhattan judge has already indicated that he will spare Donald J. Trump from jail time, but the president-elect is seeking to avoid the symbolic blow of the criminal proceeding.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has signaled that he plans to mount a full-scale legal offensive to stave off his criminal sentencing in New York, seeking a last-minute reprieve before becoming the first president who is a convicted felon.​

...​

Although that request is most likely doomed — the judge, Juan M. Merchan, was the one who scheduled the sentencing — Mr. Trump’s lawyers disclosed in the filing that they planned to escalate their effort. If the judge does not pause the sentencing by 2 p.m. on Monday, the filing said, Mr. Trump will “seek an emergency appellate review.”​

​

Hoping to persuade a New York appeals court to intervene, Mr. Trump’s lawyers plan to file a civil action against Justice Merchan and seek to freeze the sentencing, according to the filing. It is unclear when they will file that action with the appellate court, but it could come as soon as Monday.​

This is so shocking. Yet, America has now accepted it as the new normal. Since 2015, America has been primed to become numb to what once would have been seen as horrifically abnormal. What was truly unacceptable in public life before the Trump Tower Escalator event, is now seen by many as acceptable.

yep