by Jefferson Childers
Although it was completely predictable, the New York Times still ran perhaps its stupidest article in a long series of cognitively compromised columns, this one capped with the stunningly imbecilic headline, “As a Felon, Trump Upends How Americans View the Presidency.” A far more honest headline would have been, “Trump’s Sentencing Proves Liberal Lawfare Complete Waste of Time.”
Despite referring to “How Americans View the Presidency” right in the headline, the cowardly article never even tried defining how the Times claims Americans view the Presidency after four years of Joe Biden, or for that matter, after eight years of Bill Clinton. Whatever difficult to describe standard that was, we must trust the Times that now it has been upended.
Upended by yesterday’s sentencing. Not by the unprecedented prosecution, trial, or conviction. But I digress.
Judge Merchan, who has steadfastly refused to allow cameras or voice recorders into the courtroom for the entire, inconceivably expensive trial, reversed his long-standing policy yesterday, so that his completely undramatic sentencing of President Trump, who appeared remotely by Zoom from Florida, could be published.
After everything, after spending $80-million-plus (?) and who knows how much political capital to obtain the first criminal conviction of a U.S. president, Judge Merchan bravely sentenced Trump to nothing. No jail, no fine, no probation, not even community service.
Merchan’s unprecedented non-sentence left the Times with very little ammunition to work with, but it did it’s lying best. In the Times’ view, Trump has been punished: politically.
“TrUmP is tHe fIrSt FeLoN pReSiDeNt!!”
“While Mr. Trump was spared jail time or financial penalties,” the Times’s glum reporter noted with the slightest hint of finding a bright side, “he effectively had the word ‘felon’ tattooed on his record for all time unless a higher court overturns the conviction.”
Hahaha! Stop it! It’s too much! The best slam the Times could come up with was this is going on his permanent record. That is, effectively permanent. But not actually permanent! Because Trump’s appeal is still pending, and it’s pending under a whole new regime. So.
New York law allows judges to grant an ‘unconditional discharge’ when “no proper purpose would be served by imposing any condition upon the defendant’s release.” In his sentencing, Judge Merchan noted that the “citizenry of this nation” voted Trump back into the White House. For some reason. And so, an unconditional discharge was the only sentence that would not “encroach on the highest office of the land.”
They just can’t stop themselves. Although the Times desperately wished something significant had happened yesterday, Grey Lady realized that the “felon” label is a dead letter. “No one seemed shocked after Friday’s sentencing,” it reluctantly admitted, which “was already baked into the system.”
The reporter scared up an appropriate, if false, quotation from Barack Obama’s former lawyer who sadly said “You have somebody who is an adjudicated felon 34 times over, but you also have a nation that is either so numb or so in shock that it does not know how to react.”
Please. That is a progressive fantasy. Not only do we know exactly how to react, we did react. We re-elected the felon. Nor are we numb or in shock; we are furious. And we’re not going to let sold-out corporate media get away with it this time.
The Times’s article, framed as “news” but with a slimy “news analysis” legend at the top, failed journalism 101, because amidst a dozen anti-Trump quotes it included only a single paragraph cited to anyone even slightly favorable to President Trump, despite that he just won re-election in a modern landslide. That one paragraph is worth repeating here:
“Of all the cases against Mr. Trump, the New York case was the most partisan and least meritorious,” said Michael W. McConnell, a Stanford Law School professor and former federal appeals court judge appointed by Mr. Bush. “The conviction says more about the low standards of prosecutorial integrity in the once-vaunted Manhattan D.A. office than about Mr. Trump.”
The article was a biased hit job, a badly written and poorly conceived op-ed decorated with a news wrapper, and nobody should bother reading it.
As yee sow, so shall ye reap. All those who subverted the judicial system, who suborned justice, destroyed evidence, tortured the facts, used the media as a propaganda toy, made the court system into a star chamber, all these will soon face justice of one sort or another, for karma always delivers.
The sentencing of Trump only makes him more popular and liked by real Americans. No one in their right mind gives a crap about this sham conviction. Convicted by a sham disgraceful crooked judge and DA in a kangaroo court that was a disgrace to this country. And this “convicted felon” in the WH will be light years better than the senile, demented, little girl fondling, incompetent, dysfunctional old man Joe Biden and the pathetic cackling, insufferable Commie-la Harris that this nation has suffered from for the last four years.
This fascist lawfare fooled no one. Even the supporters knew exactly what the score was, they just liked it. Those are the radical subversives that need to be OUT of this country.
It seems law fare was just a grift, raising money for the Democrats.
Was the whole Democratic campaign for President was just grift, raising two billion dollars for Democrats and their operatives.
Are they even now counting their money?
But Kamala spent most of it. As usual, the only ones who benefit are the thieves.
Another convicted felon loosed onto the sreets of NY 😉
Maybe Trump/DOJ’s version of lawfare will be more successful.
SOMEBODY has to pay for what they put this man through.
It’s not lawfare if it is a legitimate prosecution for an actual crime. But, yeah, there are plenty of those.
Like the rest of the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders the New York Slimes is losing its Subscribers and Readers since t his leftists rag has been covering up for the Globalists like they did for Stalin Hitler Castro and the Viet Cong
They accomplished their goal: get Trump called a “felon”. Though whiny, crybaby leftists have been calling him a felon for years, based solely on accusations, they’ve been salivating at the opportunity to have it etched in stone. Or, in sandstone, easily eroded away by the first appeal that lands in a non-DNC affiliated court.
During the trial, I was reading The Implosion Conspiracy, the book about the Rosenberg trial. The book explained how the judge, fully aware of the historic sense of the trial, was attentive and careful to anything that might cause a mistrial or the verdict, if it was guilty, to be overturned on appeal. Watching what we could see of THIS trial, Merchan had no such concerns. His only consideration was serving the leftist cause, getting a conviction no matter what. Now, I’m certainly no attorney, but even I could see the violations committed by Bragg and Merchan a mile away. If the defendant was anyone but Trump, this would have been a slam-dunk toss-out and the ACLU would be on it like stink on shit (the best analogy applicable to this farce of a “trial”).