Guilty, guilty, guilty….
Former President Donald J. Trump was recently convicted by a Manhattan jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign for The White House.
The convictions made him the first former president of the United States to be convicted of a crime.
Trump will report back to the courthouse in New York City on July 11 to be sentenced by Juan Manuel Merchan, a Colombian-born American judge and former prosecutor.
The Republican National Convention will commence in Minneapolis on July 15. On the evening of July 18, Trump will formally accept, for the third time, the GOP nomination for president.
A convicted felon, twice impeached, leader of the January 6, 2021, insurrection against the U.S. Government, and former president of the United States, is the leader of the Republican Party. As skeptical as it is in American politics, Trump’s felon status does not prevent him from seeking the nation’s highest elective office.
Indeed, white privilege continues to dominate the current, cult-driven political party of President Abraham Lincoln. Does any rational thinking person believe for one moment that former President Barack Obama would have been elected or reelected as either a charged or convicted criminal, with one, much less 34, convictions? Of course not! And rightfully so.
So now America eagerly awaits Trump’s sentencing date of July 11. Will he go to prison? Or won’t he?
If Judge Merchan sentences Trump to prison, America will survive.
America has survived a Civil War, two World Wars, the Great Depression, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the resignation of one president due to criminal behavior, the assassinations of four sitting presidents, the Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy within 68 days of one another, COVID-19, and a physical attack on the U.S. Capitol 14 days before President Joe Biden assumed the presidency.
However, Americans must not rely on Trump being sent to prison to halt his current threat to American Democracy. Our justice system cannot, and will not, save us from Trump returning to The White House.
That can only be done by each of us at the polls on Nov. 5. We must exercise our constitutional right to vote in elections at the national, state, and local levels of government.
Former President Donald Trump appears in a New York City courtroom on April 4 for his arraignment on 34 felony counts related to payoffs for an alleged tryst with a porn star. (Courtesy photo)
Reprinted from the Washington Informer
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