Late on Thursday afternoon, American democracy came under extraordinary threat when a New York jury 12 New Yorkers decided to convict Donald Trump.

He has been found guilty by the jury on 34 separate felony counts.

If he is sentenced to jail time, that jail time could be up to four years of all the sentences run concurrently.

It's a travesty of justice. This case was a joke from the very beginning. Manhattan District

Attorney Alvin Bragg, who set this entire thing up to become more famous and more powerful.

Judge Juan Merchant, who basically gave every benefit to the prosecution whose jury instructions

were unprecedented in their

willingness to flout the law. This was all set up to convict Donald Trump simply so that Democrats

could either jail Donald Trump or spend the next few months declaring Donald Trump a convicted

felon for purposes of the election. The actual methodology by which he was found guilty is utterly uncertain.

As we discussed a little bit earlier today, the reality is that there were two crimes

alleged, a misdemeanor falsification of business records, which would not have resulted

in any possible jail time.

But that was reliance to become a felony on other, on other crimes, unspecified crimes.

And those crimes could have been a violation of federal finance law, except that Donald Trump

clearly did not violate federal finance law.

Not only that, the federal government never even bothered to charge him with violating federal finance law, federal finance law. Not only that, the federal government never even bothered to charge him

with violating federal finance law, federal election law in 2016. Check your calendar. It is currently

2024. And the case that New York just made is effectively that Donald Trump violated

election law in 2016, falsified business records in 2017, and somehow despite the

fact that the statute of limitations has run already, this is now a Class E felony in the state

of New York lengthening the statute of limitations. The number of hoops they had to jump through

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