Donald Trump Hush money trial

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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

So I guess ol' Don is finally cooked. Even with appeals, there's no way he can get all 34 counts appealed.

He can, but we're looking at long, long past the election before this is all settled up. We're talking exhausting courts at the state level which have already shown us which way they'll lean before going to the federal level (a lot of this hinges on a federal crime that was never actually brought forward to begin with), where the whole thing can be thrown out.

I'm of several minds about this. One, well... it wouldn't be much of a show trial if there wasn't going to be a conviction, would it? There was always going to be a conviction. Two, someone other than Trump on the republican ticket would be a good thing and a more swallowable pill to independents or people on the fence so if this leads to that, great (but I don't think it will lead to that). Three, a lot of talking heads on the right are saying this is a great thing, that this vindicates Trump in a lot of people's head and proves that the left has weaponized the government to go after Trump. Which they have, blatantly, but I don't have one iota of faith that the "average person" -- whether on the left or in the middle -- has that as a takeaway. Maybe some, but this sounds a lot like the hopeful, "Pffft, Roe V Wade being struck down won't hurt the vote this election cycle at all!" and we saw how that went.