re: #250 Unabogie

Yes, I think a jury will find him guilty on all charges. Prosecutors were able to connect the dots via documentation provided out of Trump’s own papers, emails, and witnesses from within the Trump org. That’s even before we get to Michael Cohen.

Trump could have been offered the chances of being convicted on the lesser included as an alternative, but that would have guaranteed Trump being found guilty of crimes, and there’s no way Trump would have gone for that. So, instead of getting a chance at a lesser crime, Trump’s going to be found guilty on the felony counts instead. Instead of taking a plea deal, he’ll end up going to jail (and I do think he’s going to jail). He and the GOP are going to be in for a rude awakening this week about their emperor having no clothes. There will be no rioting in the streets to protest Trump’s incarceration. There will be no rioting about the verdict. It will be justice done (delayed, mind you, but done).

At every opportunity to avoid consequences for crimes, he doubled down thinking he was above the law, and this will play out to his detriment. They could expedite the appeals, but the courts will uphold his verdicts. There was no material issue of fact or law that undermines the outcome here.