By discovering Trump responsible on all 34 felony counts, the jury despatched a message to the nation and Donald Trump. Now will probably be as much as America to determine if they need a felon president.
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Rachel #Maddow “That is unanimous on all counts. It is a definitive and that is an irreversible verdict. He can attraction. I am certain he’ll attraction. However that is all the pieces that the prosecution requested for.” pic.twitter.com/kO2nTPty5f
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) Might 30, 2024
As Rachel Maddow stated on MSNBC’s Deadline: White Home:
Pay attention, that is unanimous on all counts. It is a definitive and that is an irreversible verdict. He can attraction. I’m certain he’ll attraction. However that is all the pieces that the prosecution requested for, from a jury that by all counts took this factor very, very significantly. We counted the deliberation hours down right here.
The take a look at right here for us, as a rustic, will not be about what occurs on attraction. And isn’t about what occurs on sentencing. The take a look at for us now as a depend is whether or not or not this former president and his allies could have succeeded in making an attempt to undermine the rule of legislation so that folks reject this as a official perform of the rule of legislation in our nation. They’ve tried to delegitimize this decide. They’ve tried to delegitimize the courtroom and delegitimize the legal guidelines that he’s charged below. The folks concerned in bringing this case have been threatened and intimidated and have all the pieces dropped at bear in opposition to them in a method that was designed to delegitimize the method of the American folks. It’s now within the fingers the American folks to determine if we’ll settle for these efforts.
Trump will proceed to attempt to delegitimize the method and the rule of legislation, however the message being despatched was loud and clear. There was no ambiguity. Donald Trump broke the legislation dozens of occasions and he did so to win the 2016 election. Republicans have now chosen a convicted felon for president, and even when a couple of voters disqualify Trump based mostly on this verdict, the message despatched is devastating.