America has felon
- Chidanand Rajghatta
- TNNUpdated: May 31, 2024, 22:22 IST IST
America has entered uncharted territory. A convicted felon will run for White House in Nov. He may well become president. What happens in the run-up to that possibility is as unnerving as what happens after. America — and the world — is in for six months of suffocating suspense and debilitating drama. Amid hot wars and global warming, the world’s most influential country is on a slow burn to self-destruction. No one is attacking America; America is attacking itself.
Here’s the skinny on Thursday’s verdict in which a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty — pending appeal — of falsifying business records while paying off an adult actress whose disclosures would have hurt his election prospects in 2016. The charges are non-violent felonies, the lowest level in New York, and although they’re punishable by 16 months to four years in state prison, it is unlikely, given the former president’s age (77), that he will be incarcerated, also in part because he has not previously been convicted of a violent crime.
Here’s the skinny on Thursday’s verdict in which a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty — pending appeal — of falsifying business records while paying off an adult actress whose disclosures would have hurt his election prospects in 2016. The charges are non-violent felonies, the lowest level in New York, and although they’re punishable by 16 months to four years in state prison, it is unlikely, given the former president’s age (77), that he will be incarcerated, also in part because he has not previously been convicted of a violent crime.
