tonight on all in. breaking news has come in that we are reading across the newswires, guilty. count one. guilty verdict, count two. guilty verdict, count four. so three and four. donald j trump still guilty on 34 felony counts. no one ever says that about me. i would like them to say we are to have a little sorrow for this man. in the republican standardbearer reveals that his conviction is an honor. in a way i am honored. salacious. by the way. and nothing ever happened. if it were george washington, was he a bad boy here, was he a bad boy there? tonight, major questions about the sentencing of donald trump. how is that going to affect the rnc? does he have confinement? if he goes to prison, what does that look like? plus, the trump campaign threats to those who won t back a felon. and why dreams of a hung jury should give us all a little hope. the 12 everyday jurors about it to make a decision based on the evidence and the law. all in starts right now. go
of the jury system. they completely disregard the fact that donald trump had every right in the full panoply of rights afforded to criminal defendants in the united states of america including the presumption of innocence, a jury trial, the right to testify if you wanted to, which he didn t, and so on. but they abandoned all of that. and it is just shocking. but it is fitting for a party which is now walking down the road of donald trump and vladimir putin and viktor orban. and they have a lot more in common with the far right parties abroad than they have in common with the party that abraham lincoln created, which was a pro-freedom, prounion, anti-conspiracy theory, pro- rule of law, pro-constitution party. and they have abandoned all of that. the speaker of the house, mike johnson, said he knows some of the supreme court justices personally and he is sure they are as upset about
months, time served, home confinement, or whatever? yes, that is typically what you see. that is the basic text that is the template? yes. again, neither party is, neither party needs to follow that. but generally the court does give that a fair amount of weight because they tend to be more neutral. so both parties will look at that, they will then decide look, i think in this circumstance in terms of thinking what affairs sentenced here would be, one thing that you look at, one factor is relative culpability. michael cohen has already been sentence for the same thing, and he was sentenced to three years in prison. granted, he was also sentence for other crimes and not just this one. however, that was part of the sentence. and during that sentence, judge polly said, i am paraphrasing here, but that those campaign- finance violations were a danger to democracy. and they were serious enough for him to use that kind of language. and we heard that same language in the closing here. j
what happened in lower manhattan . haven t heard from mitch mcconnell again, and less it was in the last 20 minutes. mitch mcconnell stands up with the rule of law and all these great traditional pics, and silence. lo and behold, almost an hour and a half later, mitch mcconnell dutifully put out his statement. these charges never should ve been brought in the first place. i expect the conviction to be overturned on appeal. this enforcement operation is happening because the trump people and the fox people and most of the people in the upper echelons of the party understand the only way to really bring trump down, to end his political career is if republicans turn against him. as long as they stay unified, no matter what he does, no matter how important or how dangerous or how criminal or how vile, no matter how much of a threat he is to the nation, if they all band together, then in a polarized landscape they could basically keep them afloat and make it essentially a coin toss. that