Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case
www.nytimes.com
Donald J. Trump, the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn star.

edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol

Also shoutout to @[email protected] who shared a gift article link in the comments. I hope you don’t mind but I kinda stole it and updated the post

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    212·
    5 months ago

    This is going to give a lot of GOP Senators a fig leaf.

    If someone puts a motion in Congress to make it illegal for him to run, a lot of them will vote for it.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      413·
      5 months ago

      I absolutely do not want a ban on felons running for President. In some countries, that is used as a political tool to eliminate political opponents. Putin used that against Navalny.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42479909

      Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been formally barred from competing in next year’s presidential election.

      The Central Electoral Commission has said Mr Navalny was ineligible because of a corruption conviction which he says is politically motivated.

      He has urged his supporters to boycott the March vote.

      Mr Navalny, 41, was widely regarded as the only candidate with a chance of challenging President Vladimir Putin.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
        16·
        5 months ago

        Not to mention, Trump won’t even be the first person in the USA who could be running for president from jail.

        edit: the first from a major party though, sorry Debs

      • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
        111·
        5 months ago

        His felonies are related to campaing financing, which could be used to narrow down without banning all felons. While I oppose anyone losing the right to vote, I don’t oppose people who are connvicted of treason, insurrection, or felonies related to campaign finance or abuse of elected positions being banned since they have been proven to have undermined democracy.

      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
        6·
        5 months ago

        I get allowing former felons to run for office - they served time that society said was their punishment. They are done with it.

        But a law that bans a felon that has not completed their punishment is a different story.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        32·
        5 months ago

        We’ve banned them from voting for decades.

        Also, the USA isn’t Russia and Biden isn’t Putin.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      bad law. I’d much rather a law where the candidate has to describe the nature of their past convictions in a written statement submitted with their filing paperwork to run and explain why each one doesn’t affect their ability to run the country.

      Aka reflecting on one’s crimes.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Except assholes like trump see themselves as victims of a witch-hunt and he would write that out , sorry: he will have a lawyer write that out for every one of them. I doubt he has the attention span for it.