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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/p>\n

May 30th 2024<\/p>\n

As soon as I heard that the jury in the Trump trial had reached a verdict, I glanced at the clock and realized that a) the jury had found the case to be a slam dunk and b) the use of the singular in the word \u201cverdict\u201d suggested strongly that the result was unanimous on all counts.
\nAnd in fact, that\u2019s exactly how it turned out: guilty on all 34 counts.
\nThey may be relatively low-level felonies, and on first offense jail time is rare. But Judge Merchan is going to be considering the demeanor and behavior of the multiple felon during the trial, the number of felonies committed, and whether he showed any remorse or contrition. Merchan is also going to reflect on the attacks on his family and court officials and gauge the viciousness of the convict, and he may even consider the sad spectacle of Republican congressionals lining up outside the court in a blatant effort to intimidate.
\nI don’t think judicial leniency is in the works.
\nSentencing is several weeks away, and of course Trump is going to appeal. So we won\u2019t be seeing him in an orange jumpsuit any time soon.
\nTrump\u2019s sycophants are already churning out disinformation. I saw a claim that Trump had not been allowed to know what he was charged with until the trial is over. Obviously that would be a massive constitutional no-no, but I remember reading the charges, in detail, on the day Trump was arraigned many months ago. Perhaps Fox News forgot to mention it and so Trump didn\u2019t know. He just showed up at court to cool off and catch forty winks, right?
\nOne of the reporters covering the story noted that when the jury filed in to render its verdict, not one of them looked at Donald Trump. And I remembered the scene from \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d when Atticus tells Jeb that a jury that has found a defendant guilty they don\u2019t meet his eye. Of course, that trial was a miscarriage of justice. This one wasn\u2019t. The jurors can stand tall and look everyone in the eye.
\nI think this is a seminal moment for the country. Not only does it show that nobody is above the law, but it is a body blow to the fascist movement that has been backing Trump. They can claim the trial was rigged, and surely will, but the testimony and proceeding are all there in the public record. I carefully kept a copy of Judge Merchan\u2019s jury instructions, which are an apotheosis of judicial fairness and acumen. In my estimation, Merchan is more of a judge than Roberts, Scalia, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch and Coney-Barrett, combined.
\nBut there is this: Donald John Trump is a felon. He is a criminal. That is engraved in stone. And while many of his supporters won\u2019t care about that, any more than brownshirts cared that Hitler was a jailbird convicted of insurrection. If anything, their support for Trump will get tighter, because trash always clumps under pressure.
\nBut many of his followers, the ones who suffer from lack of information rather than lack of ethics or values, are inevitably going to hear of today\u2019s verdict, and say, \u201cHold up. He\u2019s a criminal?\u201d
\nTrump\u2019s odds of winning in November were already very slim. They are nonexistent now, and I\u2019m quite sure the GOP is debating the destruction of an inevitable civil war amongst the right wing against the certainty of an electoral bloodbath if this felon is the candidate.
\nI\u2019ll close with this: Truth Social learned a verdict had been reached, and as divorced from reality as the inmates in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest, quickly celebrated with this:
\n\u201cLATER, LOSERS!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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