In May, a jury of 12 New Yorkers convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. Just six months later, America elected the first convicted felon to serve as president of the United States. In doing so, Trump – the twice-impeached, four-times indicted, once-defeated former president – overcame his felony convictions, 88 criminal charges, accusations of insurrection, civil lawsuit judgments totaling more than a half-billion dollars, allegations by his first-term cabinet that he’s unfit to serve, his openly fascist intentions, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, his failed response to the Covid-19 pandemic that led to more than 400,000 deaths from a virus he repeatedly claimed was “going to disappear,” his repeated overt acts of racism, at least 26 public accusations of rape, kissing, and groping without consent, and his promises to prosecute his political opponents to become the nation’s 47th president. Trump, meanwhile, framed his no-penalty sentence as a win, saying the “Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt.” He added: “This has been a very terrible experience […] I am totally innocent. I did nothing wrong.”
-- What the Fuck Just Happened Today: Day 1452
