DJT's enraged, dictator response to not being punished

After his non-sentencing yesterday is his New York business fraud trial, DJT and MAGA flew into a massive rage, attacking the courts and everyone involved. DJT's post on his Lies Antisocial website was a true horror the likes of which one rarely sees. He denounced his sentencing as a "despicable charade", emphasizing that the "real jury," the American people, had spoken by re-electing him. He claimed, "This case has no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no law, only a highly conflicted judge. It’s been a political witch hunt, it was done to damage my reputation." He is seething with rage and hate. 

DJT's enraged screed

One source writes:

“Today’s event was a despicable charade,” he said, “and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The call for revenge was echoed, even more emphatically, by MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk, who took to X soon after the hearing.

“The people who went after Trump should be investigated and charged,” he wrote. “All of them. Justice is coming.”

The mantle was also taken up by another prominent MAGA influencer, Trump’s lawyer and adviser Mike Davis. In an appearance on a far-right livestream show on Friday, Davis issued an ominous warning.

“Right now, the Democrats think they’re the hunters,” he said. “But guess what, on Jan. 20, at noon, they’re going to become the hunted. And I’m going to make damn sure of that.”

Another source writes, echoing my reaction:

A Tale of Two Justice Systems: Only Trump Gets Convicted of 

34 Felonies and Receives No Punishment

Public defenders and legal professionals said they never see the leniency offered to Trump given to other defendants

Each of the felony counts of falsifying business records was punishable by up to 4 years in prison and fines of up to $5,000. Yet U.S. District Judge Juan Merchan took a remarkably light approach in sentencing Friday, issuing Trump an “unconditional discharge” — meaning no jail time, no fines, and effectively no punishment except that he retains his felony conviction.

For many in the criminal justice reform and abolitionist space, his feather-light sentence further highlights the widespread inequities and failures of a criminal legal system where hundreds of thousands of Americans remain behind bars without ever even being convicted, let alone of a felony.  

This type of special treatment is nothing new for the former president, who has routinely been treated by the justice system as if he was above the law — most notably in the Supreme Court decision in July granting him immunity from prosecution for “official acts.”

Other comments:

Trump can still vote after sentencing, but can’t own a gun and will have to turn over DNA sample

We’ve Never Been Here Before: The Zero-Accountability Presidency -- The only institutions that will try to hold Trump accountable are powerless, while the only ones with the power to punish him will never do it.

Trump being sentenced is a small but important win for the rule of law -- (that is a good point to keep in mind)