Live Updates: Jury Reaches Verdict in Trump Hush-Money Case
www.nytimes.com
Twelve New Yorkers are expected to deliver their verdict shortly in the case against Donald J. Trump. He is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a payment to a porn star.

edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol

Also shoutout to @SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone who shared a gift article link in the comments. I hope you don’t mind but I kinda stole it and updated the post

      • norbert@kbin.social
        10·
        6 months ago

        He’ll be able to work some sort of grift off of it for sure but I feel like this definitely gives some Republicans an “out.”

        Now they just have to take it.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      18·
      6 months ago

      This is going to give a lot of GOP Senators a fig leaf.

      If someone puts a motion in Congress to make it illegal for him to run, a lot of them will vote for it.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        bad law. I’d much rather a law where the candidate has to describe the nature of their past convictions in a written statement submitted with their filing paperwork to run and explain why each one doesn’t affect their ability to run the country.

        Aka reflecting on one’s crimes.

        • Smoogs@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          Except assholes like trump see themselves as victims of a witch-hunt and he would write that out , sorry: he will have a lawyer write that out for every one of them. I doubt he has the attention span for it.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 months ago

      It gives us something new to troll those miserable asshats over. “Interesting argument, but have you considered the fact that your candidate is a convicted felon?”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      Before all this started, people did make claims that they wouldn’t vote for him if he was convicted.

      But then they also said they wouldn’t vote for him even if Nikki Haley conceded.

      So we’ll see, I guess. But I’m not optimistic.

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Yes: To them this demonstrates that the justice system is corrupt and they think only Trump can fix it.

      They will believe this even though Trump isn’t running for any office in New York 🤣

    • Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      6 months ago

      Tucker Carlson responded to today’s verdict in what can only be described as an apocalyptic tone, stating on X that the jury’s decision marked “the end of the fairest justice system in the world.” The former Fox News host said that Trump would still win the election “if he’s not killed first,” and closed by saying that “anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.”

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      Some, but they’ll never tell the others.

      Ladies you don’t have to tell your husband you voted for Biden.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      It will most matter for undecided voters who required a guilty verdict to decide, althoigh I’m not sure that is a large number in swing states.

      It won’t matter for his base that already ignore reality.