Fox News pundit and former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy and former official at the DOJ under George W. Bush, John Yoo, are both sounding the alarm on an issue that has been pushed to the backburner by all the other news prognosticators.
This from redstate.com.
What they are talking about could very well turn the presidential election on its head and take us into new territory—namely that Judge Juan Merchan will impose a jail sentence on Trump following the president’s kangaroo court guilty verdicts on 34 counts of business fraud.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 18, assuming of course that Merchan rejects Trump’s effort to have the charges thrown out. The president’s lawyers argue they should be dismissed because of the recent Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling, which stated former commanders-in-chief could not be charged for acts they committed in an “official” capacity.
McCarthy noted Merchan has proven time and again he is biased and wants to “get” Trump. The judge has repeatedly denied the GOP nominee’s requests that he recuse himself because his daughter has worked for prominent Leftists as a consultant.
McCarthy opined in an op-ed Wednesday that he thinks:
Merchan is going to order time behind bars, even though
[Trump] wouldn’t necessarily be immediately [incarcerated].
This brings us to the main point:
The New York prosecution of Trump was politics,
not justice. That’s why we call it ‘lawfare.’
The prosecutors and judge:
Are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal.
And it is not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison:
[I]t is virtually certain Trump will get bail pending appeal.
So, Merchan:
[C]an appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration—at least for now, and probably ever.
