Aaaaannnnndddd as if on cue, the talking heads are downplaying the sentencing

[Aviation Pro]

Over 70, first time felon, minor offenses, blah, blah, blah.

Prepare to be wrong again.

[Voltaire2]

1. What did you expect? Discussing how inappropriate it

is for him to be running for President?

[mnmoderatedem]

2. trump has demonstrated zero mitigating factors.

insulted the judge, insulted the legal process, repeatedly violated the gag order, etc.

Why should the judge give him lenient sentences?

[Johonny]

6. He's a rapist, committed business fraud

Ran a fake charity, defrauded his neice out of her inheritance, defrauded a charity, double tapped credit cards of his donors in 2020, ran a fake university . . .

What mitigating factors. The dude is a career criminal.

[TwilightZone]

3. They're not completely wrong.

Those things are factors that are considered in sentencing, and it's not a bad thing for people to understand that.

[ificandream]

4. Which talking heads?

[Silent3]

5. Hey, I'm happy for a felony conviction. The pundits might very well be right about light sentencing.

It's absolutely true that a lot of first-time felons of Trump's age wouldn't get jail time. That would be equal treatment for Trump, not special treatment.

The main countervailing reason for a harsher sentence would be the seriousness of the purpose of and motive for the crime, to gain the Presidency of the United states. If the judge can legally take that into account, then we might be talking jail time...

...some very, very long time after an incredibly slow appeals process.