Blog 3135 – 05.31.2024

The Twelve Agreed

After deliberating for less than twelve hours the jury in the criminal trial of a former President agreed that the prosecution had proven the thirty-four counts of business fraud it had brought against him. It is likely of the three big criminal cases against the former President that this is the only one that will make it to trial before the November election. Will this felony conviction be enough to insure he is not reelected to the office that his crime helped get in the first place? I think it may very well be.

He has already been convicted of sexual assault in civil court and fined millions of dollars for that act and additional millions for defaming the woman who brought the suit. In yet another civil case brought in New York State the former President was convicted of business fraud and found guilty and fined many millions of dollars in that case too.

In the two bigger criminal cases that will probably not make it to trial before the election the once President is charged with stealing classified documents and trying to steal the 2020 Presidential election, the underlying crime that paying hush money to a porn star and falsifying business records to hide that fact was intended to hide from voters in the 2016 Presidential election.

I believe yesterday verdict decided by twelve jurors will make a difference. No one is above the law. This May has been a long month for the former President and all of us with this trial stretching throughout most of it. In June the U.S. Supreme Court may render a decision on whether the former President is immune from prosecution for crimes committed while he was in office. He appointed three Supreme Court judges who all three stated in their Senate hearings that Roe V Wade was established law that they would not reverse, but all three voted to last summer.

On July 11th the former President will be sentenced in the felony conviction, just days before the Republican Presidential Convention. Will he pay for his crimes. I am reminded of a little refrain that I heard as a boy: “You can’t do wrong and get by, no matter how hard you may try…”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White