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Article title: Judge SLAMS Donald, fascism is on the ropes, prison looming.

Article body: today a Judge meekly begged Donald to stop asking his insurrectionists to murder the court clerks. A legal expert claims that maybe if Donald continues doing so he could be fined potentially $1,000 and possibly asked again to stop. Also next time might be a more stern tone of voice.

That’s not entirely correct. Part of the prosecution’s case is tying Cohen’s compensation as Trump’s personal attorney to compensating him for laying out the money for the hush money payments. Cohen claims that he agreed to worked as the President’s personal attorney for free, and payments received during that period were in fact compensation for his payments to Daniels. That piece of the case is directly dependent on Cohen’s credibility as a witness, which is why the defense focused so heavily on discrediting him.

This just made me think of a world where everyone has some sort of colorblindness and can't see a color, except this one person who can who used it, but the color is outlawed, so there's a trial of all color blind people and are being told it's this color, but aside from a computer giving a hex code for it, they can't see it and have to rely on this computer output over their own eyes.

It would be pretty insane if Cohen does time, and the person ordering him to do the crime does not. Of course, par for the course in the US justice system, but nevertheless crazy.

Yeah my understanding is that this crime pretty universally leads to a fine and limitation of business activities, not prison time.

if he were given imprisonment as a sentence, it would be, at most, a few months, and he'd most likely be able to serve it under house arrest (e.g., in Trump Tower).

probably...

You know what's crazy? We don't allow convicted felons to vote, but with trump we are told there's no law preventing him holding the office. Bananas.

He can still run even if convicted

Even if he is convicted and imprisoned, he can still run. It’s crazy.

All Congress needs to do is vote and fail to reach a supermajority vote to remove the cloud on his candidacy, and he'd be completely barred from office. We've all seen him engage in insurrection. They could vote to requalify him too, but the numbers aren't there.

That's how it would work if republicans weren't a mob of Russian puppets.

It does not.

The judge decides. There is no minimum. Trump is a first time offender. If he was a random guy off the street (let's stipulate white for, you know, reasons) it would be very likely he'd get a sentence that doesn't include prison. Given his high profile, let's be honest there is no chance he'll do time over this.

But he will be a felon, likely on probation, so there are consequences associated with that. I believe the classified documents case is actually a much bigger threat to him (unless Cannon succeeds in finding a way to let him escape it).

The judge is no fan of Trump, but yes, he didn't want to put Trump in jail during the trial for contempt. There was a good reason, because that may be misused by Trump's team on appeal to suggest the judge biased the jury against Trump or that the judge was himself biased. I agree with prioritizing tactics to avoid any delay or unforced errors that Trump's team will certainly try to exploit.

After a guilty verdict, I assume the judge will decide the sentencing, and I don't see a reason to hold back. Of course, we've all been disappointed before.

The judge. The jury decides if the defendant is guilty or not and then the judge comes up with the sentence.

Well, ya see, this is a white collar crime. They call it that for a reason

This is literally the first conviction opportunity...