Jesse Scheckner
A new Lincoln Project ad is lambasting Donald Trump as a “weak” criminal in the wake of a jury decision Thursday to convict the former President of 34 felony counts.
The one-minute spot, titled “Convict,” opens with CNN anchor Jake Tapper reporting the verdict. A voice-over kicks in soon after.
“You’re a criminal, Donald. That’s what the jury said — not the deep state, not the Democrats, not the Biden administration. A jury, regular people who saw the evidence and felt sick,” the ad says.
“You’re a criminal, and you did it to yourself. Your defense was weak because you’re weak. They had no argument because there is no argument. You were too scared to testify because you knew, Donald.
“You know you’re guilty, guilty as sin. Guilty as charged.”
The Lincoln Project shared the ad with Florida Politics just after 6:30 p.m. In an accompanying statement, Rick Wilson reiterated one of the ad’s key messages.
“(Trump’s conviction) wasn’t some ‘deep state’ plan — it was the result of our institutions doing their job and our rule of law enduring,” he said.
Wilson elaborated in a video on YouTube.
A New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11. For the more serious counts, he faces a maximum sentence of up to four years in prison. Considering his age and his status as a former President, he may receive a shorter sentence or no prison time.
Neither his conviction nor possible incarceration would prevent him from running or serving as President.
And he won’t be barred from voting either; Florida, where Trump has been registered to vote since October 2019, only blocks residents with out-of-state felonies from voting if the state they were convicted in would do so.
New York law, meanwhile, provides that felons can vote as long as they aren’t incarcerated.
15 comments
Dont Say FLA
May 30, 2024 at 8:15 pm
The Guardian reports today, “‘World’s largest botnet’ – spread through infected emails – taken down through coordinated police action among several countries”
Low and behold, the Trump and Rhonda supporters aren’t here today.
Coincidence? Only time will tell.
Time like 45 plus an L.
My Take
May 30, 2024 at 11:07 pm
Yeah, where are they?
Too funny.
Dont Say FLA
May 30, 2024 at 11:10 pm
I guess Julia filled all her open positions with them. She is gone too.
So Trump losing his trial today isn’t the biggest or baddest election news for him. Loss of his botnet is much bigger. He can’t win without it repeating his nonsense and validating the feeling of people tricked by him and/or his former botnet which, of course, he barely even knows and he never even met that botnet except once when it and its husband met them for dinner at a very public restaurant but it never happened again because that botnet was not his type
Paul Passarelli
May 30, 2024 at 10:36 pm
Kangaroo Court. Meaningless Verdict.
The USA is now officially a Banana Republic.
My Take
May 30, 2024 at 11:06 pm
TrumpTrash are howling.
Seems not yo be neaningless to them.
Dont Say FLA
May 30, 2024 at 11:12 pm
How many times do I gotta say this?
It’s an Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana Republic
Maybe the bold font will help it settle in
Ocean Joe
May 31, 2024 at 7:34 am
Yes Paul, it’s an outrage! Trump commits treason, a capital offense, by trying to block certification of the electoral college vote using a mob of whitetrash dirtbags who break antique windows and smear excrement into the marble walls while pos’s like Josh Hawley run away like little girls…and all we get are some hush money convictions!
It’s disgraceful!
Dont Say FLA
May 31, 2024 at 8:54 am
Dogs, literally just dogs, sign search warrants every single day. So why couldn’t a kangaroo administer a court? The jury’s in charge of evaluating the evidence and rendering verdicts anyhow, so what difference would a kangaroo or dog make for a criminal trial?
The real scenario was that the court jester’s charms did not work on the court. He did the crimes. He should do the times.
Bubba
May 31, 2024 at 5:22 pm
Really?
Just spouting faux noise rhetoric?
rick whitaker
May 31, 2024 at 7:18 pm
PAUL, sorry to see you go. where are you going that is better than the usa?
Dave west
May 30, 2024 at 11:32 pm
Trump Trash Traitors all you Trumpsters go to Russia were you belong.your beloved Dick tat or calls the military losers. His a Traitor just like his hatefilled Red hated moron followers. You’re all domestic Terrorists should be stripped of your citizenship and put in prison.
Bubba
May 31, 2024 at 5:25 pm
red hat red
hat red hat
HATRED LIVES IN REDHAT!
Balls
May 31, 2024 at 8:56 am
I wonder if the New York Five have been hollering for Trump to get the death penalty? (Especially since he’s guilty, unlike them when demanded they get the death penalty)
If they are not yet hollering for it, this is their new 15 minutes. Get ‘er done fellas!
Michael K
May 31, 2024 at 10:54 am
Yep. Karmic retribution.
My Take
May 31, 2024 at 7:19 pm
One is running for office.
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