Judge Merchan has earned my total respect and the jury has earned my total admiration. They've restored my confidence in our system of justice.
We must not see this as a trial about Trump's moral failings, hush money payments, or association with unsavory characters. It was a trial about falsification of business records for the purpose o…
Judge Merchan has earned my total respect and the jury has earned my total admiration. They've restored my confidence in our system of justice.
We must not see this as a trial about Trump's moral failings, hush money payments, or association with unsavory characters. It was a trial about falsification of business records for the purpose of interfering in an election. That's what he did that was illegal and the jury found him guilty of.
The polls from before the verdict are meaningless, except as future historical data points. The news needs to settle in before any polls can be considered valid, and even then, subject to invalidation as we get closer to November 5.
Unlike many on the right, I, and I suspect many others here, were prepared to accept the outcome even if it had gone the other way. I'm glad it didn't, but I had confidence in the outcome either way.
I was prepared for a hung jury or acquittal, although my sense of the trial, from news reports, was that the prosecution did a good job, while the defense had to listen too much to their client's demands. So I am thrilled that the jury followed the evidence and voted accordingly.
Judge Merchan has earned my total respect and the jury has earned my total admiration. They've restored my confidence in our system of justice.
We must not see this as a trial about Trump's moral failings, hush money payments, or association with unsavory characters. It was a trial about falsification of business records for the purpose of interfering in an election. That's what he did that was illegal and the jury found him guilty of.
The polls from before the verdict are meaningless, except as future historical data points. The news needs to settle in before any polls can be considered valid, and even then, subject to invalidation as we get closer to November 5.
Yes, and so much for the hand ringing and the despair over things like one of the jurors getting news from “truth social”!!
Unlike many on the right, I, and I suspect many others here, were prepared to accept the outcome even if it had gone the other way. I'm glad it didn't, but I had confidence in the outcome either way.
I was prepared for a hung jury or acquittal, although my sense of the trial, from news reports, was that the prosecution did a good job, while the defense had to listen too much to their client's demands. So I am thrilled that the jury followed the evidence and voted accordingly.
Me too. And the difference between "us" and "them" is that we would have accepted a different result. I'm good with that.