Trump is a convicted felon, but he got off scot-free. It’s a travesty.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/readers/2025/01/11/trump-convicted-felon-judge-merchan-punishment/77601279007/

45 comments

  1. There is no justice in America. It’s fundamentally broken. If you are poor, or nonwhite, or not a politician, your life would be ruined after doing 2% of the crimes Trump committed. But for him, he is gifted a monarchy and immunity for life.

  2. Lesson learned.

    There is a system for us, and a system for them

  4. USA has finally proved, it has 2 systems, one for trump and one for us

  5. Black man steals $130 from a Walmart he’d be in jail for sure. Trump’s felonies were concerning literally 1,000 times more than that…

  6. AND, he’s not even a remotely good criminal. That money empowers such graft and mediocrity is disgusting.

  7. The justice system has one way for the rich and another way for the rest of us. Haven’t we all noticed this for the past 230 or so years? 

  8. Got a free pass on dozens of contempt of court charges as well

  9. Now he’s a convicted felon again, what about security clearances and sensitive documents?? My job relies on a clearance. If I even hinted at doing the shit he has been convicted of or accused of, i’d be out of a job.

  12. to the surprise of absolutely nobody who has been paying attention

  14. The justice system is basically what they call a gentleman’s agreement. What you’re seeing is from the earliest days the most valuable lesson that Trump and his father learned from Roy Cohn.

    Stand there with your arms crossed and then when somebody from the government suggest that you play along with this gentleman‘s agreement, just cross your arms scowl and say no.

    And you’ll be surprised how many people, old men and mostly old white men will cave in, looking for ways to avoid conflict. There will be exceptions but not enough exceptions to make a difference, or to provoke some sort of epiphany on the part of the person crossing their arms like a five-year-old who doesn’t wanna go to bed at night .

  15. Amazing what oligarch backing can do. Money will always speak the loudest in this country and that was reaffirmed repeatedly esp in the election.

  16. Trump is a failed insurrectionist and should be barred from the office of US President.

  17. Next time someone says a felon can’t do that, just point to Trump. He dismantled the rule of law and the justice system in America, for the rich and elite anyway. The rest of us will suffer. It’s insane that a shoplifter will get a harsher sentence than a man who defrauded the entire nation with covering up illegal payments. Insane as fuck, meanwhile the MAGA traitors are still upset about a laptop and unsecured email whereas the transition team for Trump used private communications. Ya all are hypocrites, plain and simple. I call out corruption on all sides.

  19. This is a flaw in our democracy. There are no disqualifiers on who can be president. Even a mass murderer can become president if elected. The American people loudly and proudly voted this felon in and pretty much worship him as the second coming of Jesus when he is more Antichrist than the actual Christ.

  20. Since he’s a felon he can’t obtain security clearance correct?

  21. I know, right. I’m using this as my defense on my next felony.

  22. Thanks to all the Bible huggers, he’s your god!

  23. Anyone see Glenn Toungkin signing on with 25 other GOP governors to cut the Federal Workforce?

    I bet they are running a story in every states main newspaper with each governor.[https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/youngkin-trump-doge/article_e2d17acc-cf93-11ef-a44e-1f234deb1288.html](https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/youngkin-trump-doge/article_e2d17acc-cf93-11ef-a44e-1f234deb1288.html)

    Edit adding content

    “Gov. Glenn Youngkin has joined other Republican governors in a letter to congressional leaders voicing their “overwhelming support” for efforts by President-elect Donald Trump and his new Department of Government Efficiency to cut the federal government workforce and spending, which economists warn could harm Virginia’s economy.

    The Republican Governors Association sent a letter on Friday, signed by Youngkin and 25 other Republican governors, throwing their support behind DOGE. Trump proposed the new entry to slash the federal workforce, moving employees and agencies outside of the Washington, D.C., area, including the Northern Virginia suburbs that depend on them economically.”

  24. It’s been a very long time since America’s justice system had any semblance to being just.

    The rich are free to do what they want and the rest of us, well you’re fucked.

  25. It gets worse. He got off Scot-free because he is President.

  26. Now we join the ranks of other countries that have felons as elected leaders.

    So what? What will you do? This is what Jesus wanted, ins’t it?

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  27. He did say that there was a two-tiered justice system. He just lied about who was on which tier

  28. Different rules for Trump and when you have his appointed judges make illegal and bogus decisions he gets away with it!

    Everything he spews is a lie and whenfsct che king him the entire GOP comes to his defense!

    All that he Saya about Biden is corrupt just change a few words and he is talking about himself corruption nasty lies

  29. >I remember how furious I was at Republicans like former Attorney General Bill Barr and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton who came out with harsh criticism of Trump – but much too late. Their books told of egregious corruption and incompetency in the Trump administration.

    >Apparently the sale of books was their motivation. Why didn’t they act when they could’ve made a difference? The police officers who died [defending democracy on Jan. 6, 2021](https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/columnists/david-plazas/2025/01/03/election-results-congress-certification-trump-insurrection/77403793007/), might be alive today. So much might be different. 

    >**Voters who elected a convicted felon as President, Attorney General Garland who couldn’t get his motor started, Democrats who think unity means turning a blind eye, and judges who hold Trump to a lower standard than you or me will have to look in the mirror someday and admit they might have made a difference.**

    I hope they suffer from the amoral choices they made.

  30. Isn’t it a bigger issue that Americans elected him? They knew he was a felon but did not care.

  31. I’ve read he now has to submit a DNA sample. Anyone know if that’s true? If so, that could protect women from him. He doesn’t seem like the type to slap on a condom. 

  32. The single biggest mistake Biden made in his career was appointing that joke as AG

  33. A travesty of what, everybody on both sides of the “aisle” worked very hard to achieve this outcome.

  34. I don’t blame the system, I blame the people.

    It’s still crazy that people would vote for this guy over some grocery prices.

  35. Never mind the arguably worse charges from the two Federal cases and the Georgia case, all of which will probably never be heard.

  37. The message has been sent loud and clear; If you want justice, find it yourself. The courts will no longer do it for us.

  38. All well blah blah blahing about two tier justice system that he was the victim of, always projection, always

  41. I paid a $40 traffic ticket last year. The law held me more accountable than someone convicted of 34 felonies for fraudulent business records. What a joke.

  42. Donald has been committing crimes all his life and either getting away with it scot-free, or he’s been sued for amounts of money that don’t matter to him.

    By becoming president the first time, he put himself under the world’s biggest microscope, and he not only opened himself to charges of new crimes (undermining the 2020 election and then stealing classified documents after he left the White House), it also resulted in charges of crimes that would never have been prosecuted if he hadn’t drawn all that extra attention to himself (cheating on his New York taxes for decades and possibly his sexual assault and defamation of E. Jean Carroll).

    That showed the justice system actually worked.

    But then he won the presidency again. Now all those federal felony indictments will go away, and 77 million Americans proved they don’t give a crap about the state-level convictions or the fact that he’s an adjudicated rapist.

    I’m of the opinion that if Donald had lost in 2024, he would either be locked in court battles for the remainder of his wretched life, or he may have actually seen the inside of a prison cell. But now there’s no hope of that.

    Maybe history will paint him as the piece of garbage that he is, but we’ll see.

  44. He won the election. Cant incarcerate a sitting president or president elect.

    Time to move on

  45. I had a gross misdemeanor and got 90 days, lost my job and had probation for 3 years. For a $200 charge. He got nothing is fucking bullshit.

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