That would actively encourage rich criminals to becone politicians

I have a bad news for you for you my friend

Pretty sure that’s the point

Correct me if I’m wrong, but there is not going to be jail time in this case, so how would it even be election interference?

You can, if you have a Supreme Court that is in your pocket and makes up new rules for the trial after the trial is over.

The SC ruled not only that Presidents have a presumption of immunity for Official Acts, but also that their aides in the Executive Branch can’t give testimony about things the President says or does, even if those things fall outside the penumbra of “Official Acts”. So, after the trial was conducted with rules that allowed a small amount of testimony from Trump allies who also happened to be part of the administration, the judge was forced to consider whether these new rules affected the case.

I hope Trump’s comment to Musk that their next interview might be in Venezuela comes back to bite him, big time. The judge can use that comment directly to justify needing to toss him in Rikers for a short time, to make sure he can’t possibly avoid accountability. I keep reminding everyone about this, but Rikers is so horrible that NYC has been trying to shut it down for years. I think even a week there, even in isolation so the SS can still protect him, might break him.

What I dearly want, even more than him losing the election or going to jail, is for him to be held accountable for he shit he says. It’s why the defamation case really got under his skin after all. Until these verdicts happened, he hasn’t been held accountable to anyone since his father died. And that even includes his time as President, when the GOP protected him against two impeachments.

Trump isn’t even gonna get jail time, he can probably fundraise off of the probation or whatever he gets.