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   From: 41-21@osu.edu   
      
   In  Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   >   
   > https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/03/how-the-trump-team-   
   > reacted-to-judge-merchans-sentencing-date-n2649970   
   >   
   > President-elect Donald J. Trump will be sentenced on January 10, but there   
   > will be no jail time, not that was ever a concern. The laws and statutes   
   > got so contorted that even CNN’s Elie Honig, the network's chief legal   
   > analyst and former assistant US attorney, couldn’t defend it, aptly   
   > calling it a total disaster of a case. In essence, Trump only got   
   > convicted because Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team   
   > perverted the rule of law.   
   >   
   > Law professor Jonathan Turley nailed why Judge Juan Merchan wants to get   
   > this wrapped on January 10. It’s to give the liberal media the talking   
   > point they’ve salivated over for months: Trump is a convicted felon, and   
   > now he’s being sworn in as one on Inauguration Day:   
   >   
   > It’s a consolation prize for the anti-Trump lawyers who tried repeatedly   
   > and failed to nail Mr. Trump. Bragg’s team even tried to postpone   
   > sentencing until 2029, which was laughably transparent. That was never   
   > going to happen. Then again, Turley added that when an appeal is filed,   
   > which is likely, all of Merchan's reported misdeeds will be laid bare.   
   > Trump’s communication team didn’t hold back, with Steven Cheung, incoming   
   > White House communications director, taking a blowtorch to the judge:   
   >   
   > Today’s order by the deeply conflicted, Acting Justice Merchan in the   
   > Manhattan DA Witch Hunt is a direct violation of the Supreme Court’s   
   > Immunity decision and other longstanding jurisprudence. This lawless case   
   > should have never been brought and the Constitution demands that it be   
   > immediately dismissed. President Trump must be allowed to continue the   
   > Presidential Transition process and to execute the vital duties of the   
   > presidency, unobstructed by the remains of this or any remnants of the   
   > Witch Hunts. There should be no sentencing, and President Trump will   
   > continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are all dead.   
   >   
   > The best part is that no one cares that he’s a convicted felon. No one. He   
   > won. Kamala lost, and the Democrats lost. Deal with it.   
   >   
   > We do not care because the actual crook is leaving, half brain-dead, but   
   > he’s leaving.   
      
   Too bad he's not leaving in the same limo as Carter.   
      
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