Trump Makes History as the First U.S. President to Face Felony Charges: Judge Issues Unconditional Discharge

Es tanto una sentencia muy benigna como una muy grave. Un juez de Nueva York condenó el viernes a Donald Trump por 34 cargos penales de falsificación de facturas, cheques y registros contables con el fin de ocultar pagos de 130,000 dólares a la actriz pornográfica Stormy Daniels, para que ella guardara silencio y no perjudicara sus posibilidades en las elecciones presidenciales de 2016. Tal como se anticipaba, la condena fue un sobreseimiento incondicional: no hay prisión, ni libertad condicional, ni siquiera una multa. Al mismo tiempo, esto certifica sus crímenes. De alguna manera, el juez condena a Trump a ser el primer presidente criminal de Estados Unidos.

The president-elect appeared by video conference at the hearing, where the prosecutors in the case agreed to grant him unconditional discharge. “This has been a very terrible experience,” said the president-elect in his turn to speak. He insisted that his conviction was unfair and that “the legal experts” consider it so. “I am totally innocent,” he said in a long tirade in which he attacked his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, a prosecution witness in the case. “I think it’s been a tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system,” he added in his five-minute speech, claiming that it was done to damage his reputation so that he would lose the election “and obviously that did not work,” he said defiantly.

He repeated the arguments he had made the day before on his network, Truth Social. “This was nothing other than Weaponization of our Justice System against a Political Opponent. It’s called Lawfare, and nothing like this has ever happened in the United States of America, and it should never be allowed to happen again,” he wrote.