As we reported on Friday, Judge Merchan scheduled President-elect Donald J. Trump’s sentencing in the so-called “hush money” case on January 10, and indicated that jail time was never seriously on the table.
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The entire case against Trump was absurd from the beginning. So much so that even CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig declared last year that the case against Trump “was an ill-conceived, unjustified mess,” and accused prosecutors of contorting the law to rig the trial against Trump.
“Standing alone, falsification charges would have been mere misdemeanors under New York law, which posed two problems for the DA,” Honig explained. “First, nobody cares about a misdemeanor, and it would be laughable to bring the first-ever charge against a
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