{"id":2256306,"date":"2024-05-30T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-found-guilty-pray-for-the-republic\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:43:00","slug":"trump-found-guilty-pray-for-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-found-guilty-pray-for-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Convicted. Prayers for Our Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-found-guilty-pray-for-the-republic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2256306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A New \u200bYork jury convicted\u2062 Donald Trump on 34 felony counts, posing a significant threat to American democracy. The \u200bcase, \u200bdeemed controversial from \u2063the start, \u200dwas orchestrated for political gain, fueling doubts about its legality. Potential jail time for Trump raises\u2064 questions about the future, with uncertainties surrounding sentencing\u2064 and the impacts on\u2062 the 2024 election. The conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony counts by a New York \u200cjury has raised concerns about\u2062 the integrity of \u200cAmerican democracy. The politically-charged case has sparked controversy, leading\u200b to skepticism about its\u2062 legal implications.\u200c The\u2064 looming\u200d possibility of jail time for Trump creates uncertainty about what lies ahead, including its potential \u200dinfluence on the\u2062 upcoming 2024 election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late on Thursday afternoon, American democracy came under extraordinary threat when a New York jury, twelve New Yorkers, decided to convict Donald Trump. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump was found guilty by the jury on 34 separate felony counts. If he is sentenced to jail time, that jail time could be up to four years, if all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-avenatti-ordered-to-pay-148750-in-restitution-to-stormy-daniels\/\" title=\"Michael Avenatti Ordered To Pay 8,750 in Restitution to Stormy Daniels\">sentences run concurrently<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a travesty of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This case was a joke from the very beginning. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who set this entire thing up to become more famous and more powerful. Judge Juan Merchan, who basically gave every benefit to the prosecution and whose jury instructions were unprecedented in their willingness to flout the law. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was all set up to convict Donald Trump simply so the Democrats could either jail Donald Trump or spend the next few months declaring Donald Trump a convicted felon for purposes of the 2024 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actual methodology by which he was found guilty is utterly uncertain. The reality is there were two crimes alleged: a misdemeanor falsification of business records \u2014 which would not have resulted in any possible jail time \u2014 but to become a felony <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was reliant on other unspecified crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And those crimes could have been a violation of federal finance law \u2014 except that Donald Trump <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">clearly did not violate federal finance law<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Not only that, the federal government <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">never even bothered to charge him<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with violating federal finance law, federal election law in 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check your calendar. It is currently 2024, and the case that New York just made is effectively that Donald Trump violated election law in 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-indictment-in-stormy-daniels-hush-money-payment-investigation-imminent\/\" title=\"Trump indictment in Stormy Daniels hush-money payment investigation 'imminent'\">falsified business records<\/a> in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somehow, despite the fact that the statute of limitations has run already, this is now a class E felony in the state of New York, lengthening the statute of limitations. The number of hoops they had to jump through in order to manufacture this case, is extraordinary. The number of pretzel-like contortions the prosecution had to drag the jury through was extraordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But did any of that matter in the end? Was this ever about the legality of the case?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the evidence was presented by a porn star, Stormy Daniels, or a convicted perjurer, Michael Cohen \u2014 was it ever about any of that? Or was it simply this: If you get Donald Trump in front of a jury of his supposed peers in New York City, one of the bluest places in America, and you charge him with anything, even if you charge him with jaywalking, they will convict him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We all know the answer to this. This was, in fact, jury nullification, but it is also prosecutorial nullification and judicial nullification of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This particular trial was about getting Donald Trump. So did they get Donald Trump? We have yet to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think the backlash on this is going to be extraordinary, because this is so obviously a manufactured case and so obviously a stupid case that has nothing to do with Donald Trump\u2019s supposed violations of law. I don\u2019t think the American people are going to stand for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that if Joe Biden believes this is going to somehow redound to his benefit, rather than appearing as a politically-motivated hit job on his political opponent in an unprecedented prosecution of the man most likely to take him out of office in November, I think he\u2019s got another thing coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think this makes Joe Biden the hero in his own mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t think the American people are going to react quite that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/breaking-trump-found-guilty-on-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: BREAKING: Trump Found Guilty with Ben Shapiro<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As to what happens next, there is a procedure and there is a process. But it is quite possible Donald Trump could end up in jail because Judge Merchan has been out to get Trump this entire time. From the gag order to the allowance of evidence, Judge Merchan has made clear he wants Donald Trump convicted. I think he\u2019s going to make clear he wants him behind bars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So what exactly happens next?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There will be a sentencing hearing. That sentencing hearing will be within two or three months of the verdict. So we\u2019re going to get weeks and weeks of speculation about whether Donald Trump is going to go to jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump\u2019s attorneys presumably will attempt to appeal to the judge and hope to postpone the sentencing beyond the election; Merchan is almost certainly not going to go along with that, because the reason he has structured this trial in this way is to convict Donald Trump and put him behind bars, or at least sentence him, prior to the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump is not going to be dragged to jail today. That\u2019s not the way this works, because it\u2019s a nonviolent felony. He will not be detained pre-sentencing or forced to post bail, in all likelihood. Instead, in the next few weeks, he\u2019ll be dragged over to that dingy probation office at the New York City Courthouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The court could agree to stay Trump\u2019s sentence pending an appeal. That process would last beyond the November 5 presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But again, I highly doubt they are going to stay Trump\u2019s sentence pending the appeal. The only plausibility there is that if there were a sentence that were so short that it would actually be shorter than the appeals process itself, maybe you delay the sentencing until after the appellate process goes forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merchan\u2019s not going to do that, given everything we know about Merchan. It is highly likely Merchan will move forward with the sentencing hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merchan could impose a financial penalty, require him to do community service, undergo counseling. He could also impose home confinement, which would mean that Donald Trump would basically be confined to doing events in and around Mar-A-Lago in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s also possible that he could just throw him in jail. And no one knows what the hell happens then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Secret Service has been gaming out this possibility for months. If he ends up in prison, the Secret Service would have to screen his food and his personal items and watch him with a detail of agents 24 hours a day. The agents would be armed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of this is insane. The fact that we are even considering this is totally and utterly insane. We keep being told by the media that Merchan is unlikely to sentence him to any jail time, because he wouldn\u2019t want to be the man who puts the chief Republican candidate in prison. I think precisely the reverse. I think Democrats truly believe that if they throw Trump in jail that the American people will surrender to the Biden administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a thwarting of basic standards of democracy; To take a political opponent on trumped-up charges, find him guilty, and then throw him in jail for purposes of the election, is insanity. It is third-world crap. It is insanity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that\u2019s presumably what we are talking about right now when we talk about the idea that a politically-motivated Manhattan D.A. could go into his job with the purpose of convicting Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s what we are talking about. Third-world nonsense. Not only that, the sentencing is going to be at least partially dependent on Trump\u2019s attitude. So in the probation hearing, there are a few different factors that are going to be brought into play. His age, his health, his likelihood to commit an offense. But one of the factors is remorse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see why that is. Normally in a criminal case, if somebody commits a really dire crime, they show no remorse at all. You can see why people would want them to be in jail. But in this particular case, it\u2019s a catch-22 for Trump. If he shows remorse for a crime he did not commit, then Biden hammers him on that the rest of the election cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If he doesn\u2019t show remorse, then Merchan says he committed a crime: \u201cI had to put a gag order on him and then he didn\u2019t show remorse. I\u2019m throwing him in jail.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a very real possibility here that come November 5, Donald Trump is sitting in Rikers while the American people are voting. And if that\u2019s the case, the American people <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">should vote for him all the more, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because this was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-politicians-notable-figures-weigh-in-on-trumps-claim-that-he-will-be-arrested-on-tuesday\/\" title=\"Some Politicians, Notable Figures Weigh In On Trump\u2019s Claim That He Will Be Arrested On Tuesday\">politically-motivated prosecution<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The evidence was not there to support a conviction. In fact, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">charges <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were not even there to support a conviction. That\u2019s why Merchan had to come up with this bizarre theory whereby four jurors could vote for one underlying crime, four jurors could vote for another underlying crime, and the last four could vote for a third underlying crime, and they could combine all of those into one giant felony that would serve as the predicate for the class E felony for falsifying business records. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s a high probability this will be reversed, either in the state or in the federal system. It\u2019s certainly a violation of law in the state. It\u2019s probably a violation of law federally, because using the Federal Elections Funding Act to convict a guy in state court is bizarre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Democrats just set the country on fire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The consequences of this are extraordinarily dire, because play this one all the way out: Let\u2019s say for a second that Donald Trump is sent to jail by Merchan. Let\u2019s say that while he is in jail, the election goes forth. And under those conditions, he then loses the election. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you think he was claiming rigging back in 2020, wait until you hear about 2024 when the Democrats charged him with a bunch of garbage and then got 12 like-minded jurors to throw him in jail under the auspices of a glory-seeking judge, and took him completely off the campaign trail and smeared him as a felon in advance of the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019ve got all the same people crying, \u201cTrump will be a tyrant. Trump will undermine the rule of law. We cannot have a country with Donald Trump, who will certainly destroy democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is hard for me to think of anything less democratic than trumping up a charge on your political opponent to jail him during an election cycle. Especially when the candidate on your side is losing, which is what Joe Biden is doing right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where do we go from here as a country? The polling shows that a huge percentage of Americans will not change their vote based on that. One of the things that makes the case so unbelievably astonishing is that this is an election that\u2019s going to come down to tens of thousands of votes in a handful of swing states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right now, Donald Trump is leading outside the margin of error in Nevada, which means all he has to do is win Michigan or Pennsylvania and the election is over. The election could easily come down to 2000-4000 votes in one swing state. If Donald Trump were to lose in November while he\u2019s serving prison time on a trumped-up charge, the response in the United States will be absolutely explosive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can only talk about an illegitimate president at that point. The American people will see a Democrat elected under those auspices as illegitimate. There\u2019s no other way to even see that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden is presumably going to make comments about the law having been done, and that no one is above the law, while simultaneously the DOJ attempted to broker a deal to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">save his own son from jail<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He himself was spared a prosecution on mishandling of classified documents because he was supposedly a doddering elderly man, and he\u2019s going to lecture us about how the justice system just worked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It just did the reverse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pray for the Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because something truly terrible just happened in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American democracy faced a grave threat as a New York jury of twelve convicted Donald Trump on 34 felony counts. If sentenced, he could face up to four years in jail. 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