A New York judge has moved the sentencing in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial to after the election, on November 26. “The public’s confidence in the integrity of our judicial system demands a sentencing hearing that is entirely focused on the verdict of the jury and the weighing of aggravating and mitigating factors free from […]

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    2 months ago

    Watch we’ll see a headline in some future morning “Donald J Trump Dead at --” and that afternoon we’ll see "supreme court drops all extant charges on former president saying ““its time to focus on grieving””

    Fucking pitiful

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      That’s actually a really interesting question. I think putting dead people on trial (for new crimes, not postmortem exonerations) is fucked up, because they can’t testify in their own favor, but it’s also such an important case for the country to learn about, to assess the breadth of collusion and depth of corruption involved in trying to overthrow the government.