Now that Trump must finally by now realize that he will be going to his first criminal trial, what will he do to stay out of jail if convicted?
First, you must know of what he can be convicted of. Will he gets convicted of a lesser crime of a misdemeanor of just falsifying business records under New York law, or will he get convicted of a felony by using the business record fraud in furtherance of another crime. The case is a little complicated and may take some time to sort out in a courtroom, time that Trump claims that he doesn’t have because he needs to run for President.
For a misdemeanor crime, Trump would stay out of jail, but if he is convicted of a felony by using the business record fraud in furtherance of another crime, he qualifies for jail time.
Up to this point in his life, Trump has lost more cases than he won. He’s burned through millions of dollars to defend himself. But now he finally reached a case that is out of his control. He may have one more thing up his sleeve though that can derail the trial for a certain period of time, because Trump is the master of delay. Presently, he has potentially 4 felony trials at his doorstep, and he managed to delay or stall the other cases except for the Stormy Daniels/Business records cover up case that he now must sit in a courtroom for, right in the middle of campaign season which he will be absent for. Now his sins are coming back to haunt him.
Yet, the Republican Party claims that this is the best man to represent them in the upcoming election. He is their top candidate, now the only candidate that doesn’t sport his successes as the reason why he should be elected, but instead is having his donors give money so he can use their money for his personal interests. He is using his own supporters to give money to him, not knowing in many cases that the money will not be used for his reelection cause, but for his own personal benefit. Yes, I may have said the same thing twice, but what is it going to take to get the die-hard supporters of Donald Trump have a ‘Come-to-Jesues’ moment to finally realize how much Trump is using them.
The lesser included offense, a misdemeanor, is buried in the felony prosecution. But to examine this further, Trump has been indicted of 34 counts of business record fraud that has been ratcheted up to a felony because in New York, if you combine business record fraud, a misdemeanor, with the reasoning a person falsified the record to cover up or conceal to promote another crime, it now is no longer a misdemeanor. It could be election fraud or to cover up the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels just prior to the election to mislead voters to keep them from knowing that he did something sexual which would have turned into a scandal that could have derailed his possible election win.
Trump has attempted to convince Judge Juan Manuel Merchan who is presiding in his case, to postpone his case until after the election or kill the case altogether, and has tried his tactic at least a dozen times in one week. Trump is desperate to keep himself out of court, but with jury selection to start on April 15, there now is virtually nothing he can do to delay the trial any longer. Or, is there something else he can do.
As the self professed smart person that he claims he is, he can now fire his attorneys. That would delay the case until he found new attorneys, and they would need time to get up to speed in the case. After all, he has money to burn, or does he? He couldn’t even find a reputable bondsman to come up with a reduced amount of $175 million to keep the New York Attorney General Leticia James from seising his money from banks or the properties he has in New York. Firing attorneys may buy him another month. So then, what is his next move. He’s already tried to convince Judge Merchan that he couldn’t be tried fairly in New York, because too many people now have already created an opinion of him in the case.
Jury selection is tedious, but the attorneys of his defense and of the prosecution will have to agree on the jurors selected. That will take time, but everyone that knows how the jury selection process works in New York has confidence that a non-biased jury can be found.
So here we go. Now going into an election season, Joe Biden is pursuing his re-election bid, unabated by Donald Trump that must fight for his freedom in a New York court, who is going up against Judge Merchan after he tried to sue the judge, then go after his daughter Loren Merchan who is a senior executive at “a Super Liberal Democrat firm” says Trump, that has worked with top Democrats, including President Joe Biden. So What!?! Why attack the Judge’s daughter, the same judge that may put you in the slammer? That’s really smart Donald!
Actually, I know why. It’s because Trump thinks that everything he does makes his followers happy. He’s Mr. TUFF guy. Really. !?.@/$? Let’s see how resilient he can be when he has to go to a courtroom every day. Let’s see how strong he is, if he is actually convicted of a felony. Will he still run for office if convicted. Of course, he will. Even if he must do it from a jail cell. He has no shame.
This year, I am predicting the largest, one-sided presidential victory of all time. Donald Trump will lose the election, this time not by just 80,000 votes he lost by in the last election, but by a super majority of states that finally will realize he is not the future of the Republican Party. Trump will eliminate himself so that the Republican Party can finally be rid of Trump. But now, they have their own ghosts to scare off, because the party has evolved in the MAGA party, which is the Trump brand. Where do the Republicans go from here? Can they reinvent themselves, or will they cease to exist? That’s the unknown factor at this time. But for Donald Trump, it will be a very bad year for him.