On my last night in Reykjavik, a local was in a friendly debate with me about Trump, whom he didn’t see as being that bad. When I informed the guy that Trump was a felon, he said with his voice dragging a bit, “He’s not a felon.” I told him that it wasn’t my opinion that Trump is a felon, but a fact. Donald Trump is a felon.
Today, New York Judge Juan Merchan delivered a sentence of a bunch of nothing to Donald Trump for his 34-count conviction of being a grifter. Twelve jurors found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump had boinked Stormy years prior to the 2016 election, and he wanted her to remain quiet about it so it wouldn’t affect the 2016 presidential election. As it turns out, this nation doesn’t care because it’s lost its moral compass.
And while Judge Merchan’s ruling was a bunch of nothing, a so-called unconditional discharge of Trump’s sentence, it did formalize that Donald Trump is a felon. Even Richard Nixon never became a felon.
Trump will not have to do any jail time or serve probation with requirements, like reporting to a probation officer, picking up trash on the freeway, remaining 500 feet from a school, etc, etc…shit like that. If anything, he should probably be required to remain at least 500 feet from his daughters.
It should be noted that Donald Trump once again received special treatment. He didn’t even have to be physically present in the courtroom today and only appeared through Zoom from MAGA-Lardo. Trump was capable of stepping outside to play 18 holes right after being “sentenced.”
Trump said during the hearing that gave him special treatment, “This has been a very terrible experience” and “The fact is, I’m totally innocent.” Except he’s not innocent. He had sex with Stormy Daniels and was even spanked by her with a magazine featuring his daughter on the cover, whom he said Daniels reminded him of. He also falsified business records to conceal the hush money payment to the woman he banged that reminds him of his daughter.
Somehow, Trump doesn’t have to serve jail time or probation without showing any remorse. In fact, he worked to invalidate and delegitimize our justice system and endangered the lives of people who work in the court. He even endangered the life of the judge’s daughter. Keep in mind that Trump was on the phone with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito before SCOTUS ruled he had presidential immunity.
As the New York Times reported:
Since 2014, a third of defendants sentenced to the most serious charge of falsifying business records in the first degree in Manhattan received jail time, amounting to less than a year behind bars.
Other defendants received prison time — more than a year’s incarceration — or were sentenced to probation, conditional discharges, community service or fines.
No other defendant in the cases examined received an unconditional discharge.
Donald Trump was sentenced without any punishment. The only thing Trump learned from this is that he can do whatever he wants without any consequences…other than officially being a felon.
Trump will not be held accountable for trying to steal the 2020 election, installing fake electors, demanding state election officials to give him votes that didn’t exist, starting an insurrection, or stealing classified documents.
As I told the guy in Iceland, it’s not my opinion that Donald Trump is a felon because he is a felon. Remember that the next time you have to talk to a goon, MAGAt, or your crazy uncle. It’s not your opinion Trump is a felon, it’s a fact. In fact, I encourage you to constantly remind that crazy uncle that Donald Trump is a felon. I’m thinking about getting a T-shirt.
Creative note: I wrote a couple of ideas today and canned them when this news broke. I also drew another version of this idea which I’m going to include in the longer timelapse video I’ll post later today.
Drawn in 30 seconds:
Timelapse:
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Great stuff today, Clay. It really irks me to no end that he's a felon with no punishment. My brother has 2 felony convictions that, while bad, are nothing on the level of what the Orange Ass has done and he spent a helluva lot of time in jail and rehab for his crimes. (thank god it worked and he's been great since 1998). But to have a 34-count felon as our new president is just an atrocious thing. I'm disgusted. :(
First Felon is the perfect name for him from now on.