Legal experts agree that Trump’s conviction won’t lead to a prison sentence
Trump’s Falsified Business Records to Construct a Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels in the 2016 Presidential Reionization
According to legal experts, it is unlikely that Trump will be sentenced to prison because of the charges.
Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that it’s not likely for someone who has never been convicted of a crime to go to prison for their first offense.
The charges — for falsifying business records to conceal another crime — carry a maximum sentence of four years in prison, but Trump could receive much less serious punishment, like probation.
A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. The jurors said they unanimously agreed Trump falsified those business records to conceal a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Here are the details of those felony counts.
According to an election law expert, a felony conviction in another state makes someone ineligible to vote in Florida. “[But] only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote wherever they were convicted.”
Holly Morris’s One Trump Question for this Week’s Quiz: Former President Trump Found guilty on all 34 felony charges in hush money trial
Holly Morris has one Trump question for this week’s quiz. If you survived the news at around 5 PM on Thursday and the long weekend, you’ll get 11/11 this week.
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The Up First Show – The First Woman President of Mexico and the First Lady of the United States – Predictions for the Republican National Convention in Mexico
The first woman president of Mexico is about to be chosen. Two women are running in the race, one of which is a member of the ruling party. Eyder says people on the street are mostly skeptical about history being made. Some people think politicians should be corrupt no matter what their gender is. Others, like 92-year-old feminist Elena Poniatowska, credits hard work and feminist intention, adding that Mexico’s “triumph” of a first woman president is no surprise.
Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention, where he is set to become the official presidential nominee for the Republican Party.
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