Judge Merchan has signaled he will grant DJT an unconditional discharge, meaning the felonies stand but he will be released with no fines or jail time.
Reporting from NYTimes here. (Gift link)
I’m surprised he won’t get at least a fine.
What’s Merchan afraid of? Justice?
I was expecting a fine but this doesn’t surprise me either.
Which of course Trump and his ilk will claim means total innocence and vindication. 
To be fair, they probably would’ve anyways.
It still ticks me off. He should have been given no consideration period.
If that caused a crisis, tough shit. Don’t elect a convicted criminal. You shouldn’t even be eligible to be elected if you’re a convicted criminal.
This is simply not a nation of laws. John Adams is turning in his grave.
Teflon Don.
I guess the one good thing is that he is now and will forever be a convicted felon. Even if he faces no actual punishment, his conviction was not overturned, he was not pardoned, his record wasn’t expunged. He’s a felon. He will go down in history as a felon.
I assume he can legally be around other felons, but can other felons (subject to that restriction) be around him?
Are there any countries that refuse entry for convicted felons? Could make for a few awkward state visits.
Funny, Rudy just asked the same question.
Maybe Judge Merchan just wants to stay out of jail himself. This is what happens when democracy is exercised by the ignorati who elected a convicted felon, incompetent, and self-aggrandizing vindictive reprobate to the most powerful office in the world.
If a judge doing his proper duty has to be worried about going to prison for making the wrong person mad…
Or a nation of “Laws for thee, but not for me.”
I’m pretty sure Canada won’t let US citizens in if they have felonies like DUI. I guess they could meet at the border for their discussion on Canada becoming the 51st state.
Yup, the People have Spoken, and what they said was that they were OK with electing a convicted felon. Logically, that means they’re OK with the President being sentenced, too.
Worse mud monster Don.
With a teflon president, mud that is slung at him just slides off and doesn’t affect him. With a mud monster president, the mud that hits him makes him stronger.
Most countries do not have the exact concept of dividing criminal violations into misdemeanors and felonies. But the current president of Brazil is what we might call a convicted felon. It would be a terrible idea to bar him from entry when on diplomatic missions. As host to the United Nations, it would be especially bad for the U.S. to do this.
While Trump is stubborn, in his first term, he did sometimes listen to expert advice. Preventing him from visiting countries in which the rule of law abides, and in which he may get such good advice, would be a terrible idea. Nations that have a law against admitting the likes of DJT will wisely make an exception when he is president.
And he can’t come to Canada. Or several other countries.