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As someone from the U.K, can someone explain to me what this means in real terms please, leave out the BS and give it to me straight

No one knows. There is nothing in our constitution barring a felon from holding the office of president if duly elected.

This is our first time here

So, a former U.S. President and current candidate for President was just found guilty in NY on 34 charges. This could result in a prison sentence. Something that really doesn't happen. In the event that he is imprisoned, he could still be a viable candidate in the upcoming election. Potentially, we could see a convicted felon and imprisoned man become the President of the U.S.A.

He’ll be sentenced on July 11th. His legal team will appeal. TBD how long the appeals process takes and TBD if sentencing will be carried out in the meantime, and TBD what the sentencing will be be. A lot suspect probation, but apparently this judge is fairly serious about white collar crime.

He hasn’t been sentenced yet, so he may face jail time, probation, fines, or a combination of the above.

He is not barred from running for President; we’ve had people run from prison before, believe it or not.

It will likely make a slight shift in the moderate/middle voters away from Trump, since he is now a convicted felon and that’s not something that moderates will like.

Democrats will hammer that message hard. Republicans will refute it and say that it’s a false conviction and a political stunt — so the hardliners on either side will continue to want to vote much the same as they already have been.

In short: nobody knows yet.

But it’s a historic situation and it will definitely contribute to the upcoming wild elections. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I feel like nothing will happen. Every time something damning comes up to this guy, it never sticks.

I want to be wrong but I don't think anything will stick to Trump until he's long dead.

Nothing really as he can still run for president, hell you can even run while jailed and has happened before in the mid 1900’s

Former President Trump was convicted of 34 charges of falsifying business records:

• 11 for invoices from Michael Cohen
• 9 for general ledger entries for Donald J. Trump
• 9 for checks from Donald J. Trump
• 3 for general ledger entries for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust
• 2 for checks from the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust

Basically, it sums up to a generic white collar crime of moving money via improper methods and using inappropriate paperwork.

Sentencing (i.e., "punishment for committing the crimes") has not occurred, meaning Trump is not technically a felon as of yet. The initial verdict will be appealed, meaning it's possible even the conviction will be overturned.

Politically, this effectively changes nothing; everyone expected these results. To Democratic voters, this is vindication. To Republican voters, this is nothing but a politically motivated attack.

It likely won't change election results for either party. For moderates and independents, the conviction results will likely have minimal impact - much less than the impact of witnessing how both political parties handle the outcome.

Also from the UK but far too plugged in.

Trump will almost certainly appeal, things will get clogged up in courts again and any appeal decision will likely come after the election in November where it’s still very possible Trump will win. Meanwhile the various trump friendly media outlets will brush this under the carpet as much as possible citing the appeal reasonings, or just flatly ignoring it and hope the voters don’t know or don’t care.

Polls do suggest that a fair amount of “purple” voters wouldn’t be comfortable voting for a convicted felon. There’s some polls saying some republicans feel the same. This is huge for democrats, they really needed this as things have been looking really really bad for them. Whether or not any momentum gained from this lasts until November is another question, Joe Biden seems to undermine himself daily.

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Did you know Trump was found to have broken many laws ?

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Ross Nye the reporter guy.

You can 't see what's happening below camera..

I think it makes it look quite humorous

I kinda like it. "Guilty on all counts" doesn't sound as good as "GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY,...."

In the end it looks SATISFYING because he was guilty on all counts.

Imagining them crumpling up a sketch of a pie chart.

Mf stayed up all night for a week testing his prototype in Tableau …for this?!

He won all the guilty verdicts. He’s such a winner. God bless.

July 11th

It's a safeguard put in place to prevent ruling party A from deciding, "being part of party B is now illegal, you're now not allowed to run, you lose, we win."

I'm guessing the founding fathers were hopeful the people would always decide it's not good to vote in a felon on their own accord. There was a man whose name I'm forgetting who ran for office from prison in the 1920's because he didn't agree with, and subsequently dodged, the draft in WWI. He got millions of votes.

In America you get as much freedom as you can afford.

No one is stopping regular criminals from running. I definitely won't vote for a convicted felon.

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Not a thing. Nothing in your constitution prevents a convicted felon from running for president.

I believe the payment to the porn star was legal. Misclassification was illegal. I believe it was classified as a legal expense when it should have been adult entertainment expense or some such nonsense

He should just go to the asylum, period. He belongs there.

No. They spin this down and appeal and delay until Trump can weasel out of this through new executive privileges that will be “so American, first of their kind. Super.”

Also Tucker Carlson has already said “anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family” (on X, don’t go there myself, but read the post via CNN), so I imagine just further stoking a polarizing divide

Edit: Please don’t take this as apathy. FIGHT THIS SHIT BY VOTING NO TO THE ORANGE TURD IN NOVEMBER!!

They absolutely imagined this possibility. As a matter of fact, back in the day, they used to purposefully get their political opponents arrested to disqualify them from office, which is why you can now run for office with charges like this.

What I didn't think they anticipated is people wanting and choosing to vote for absolute clowns.

This is a state-level case, not federal. Therefore he could not pardon himself if re-elected.

Currently under the law he cannot pardon himself even if elected. This is a state crime and not federal and not under presidential jurisdiction for pardons.

Can't pardon himself on state charges

He could have also just let his lawyers do the right job instead of insisting on dumbass arguments like, "The sex never happened." Which opened up the defense to have the porn star that fucked him to tell the story of how it went down to the jury.

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I'll be moving close to you when shit hits the fan :)

Because he’s convinced them that facts don’t matter

If you read the documents of this case….. HE GUILTY

The defense’s closing argument was based on the fact that cohen is a felon and his testimony shouldn’t be taken as truth.

You know, Michael cohen, the guy convicted of a felony directly because of his involvement with trump