As we reported on Friday, Judge Merchan scheduled President-elect Donald J. Trump’s punishment in the so-called “hush money” event on January 10, and indicated that prison time was not really on the table.  ,
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The whole Trump case was absurd right away. Yet CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig claimed last year that the Trump case was an “ill-conceived, unfair mess” and that prosecutors had been attempting to setup the prosecution against Trump.
According to Honig,” Falsification costs alone would have been bare misdemeanors under New York law, which presented two issues for the DA,” First, no one is interested in a criminal, and it would be ridiculous to take the first-ever criminal charge against a former leader for a trivial offense that qualifies as shoplifting a Pixar and a bag of Cheetos from a bay. Next, the statute of limitations on a criminal — two years — probably has long expired on Trump’s conduct, which dates to 2016 and 2017″.
Honig concluded that” the charges against Trump aren’t just strange, they’re bespoke, apparently crafted independently for the former president and nobody else”.
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Therefore, a republican prosecutor, a political judge, and a political jury were required to convict the defendants over the false allegations.  ,
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In a statement released by PJ Media, incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung said,” Today’s attempt by the profoundly conflicted, Acting Justice Merchan in the Manhattan DA Witch Hunt is a clear violation of the Supreme Court’s Immunity selection and other historic jurisprudence. The Constitution mandates that this violent case be dismissed quickly. Unobstructed by the remains of this or any vestiges of the Witch Hunts, President Trump may be allowed to continue the Presidential Transition approach and carry out his essential tasks. President Trump did fight these lies until they are all dead, and there shouldn’t be a sentence.
Why did Merchan program the punishment for January 10 is the problem, exactly?  ,
The answer is provided by law professor Jonathan Turley.
Only before his opening, Judge Merchan had already sentencing Trump. He is indicating that he will establish an absolute release without prison or probation, as some of us had predicted, Turley wrote in a string on X. The word may decide the case and allow for elegance. However, it would also brand the President-elect a convicted murderer just before he is sworn into office. The lawfare warriors complete their last therapeutic work.
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As writers repeat the refrain that Trump must be sworn in as a felon in the past,” Merchan will provide the talking stage for the opening insurance,” Turley continued.
There is, nevertheless, a silver lining.
 ,” However, we will even finally be able to see an attractiveness of his case. The sentencing may allow the full range of alleged errors by Merchan to be presented to administrative judges, Turley explained. Although there are lower expectations for the New York court program, the court system has “low expectations” for the system.