Jonathan Capehart:
Look, this case, this hush money case, was the case that everybody said was the crappy case of the four.
Remember, Donald Trump was indicted four times, and this one was the least important, the shakiest.
And yet it’s the one case where Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case where he was brought to trial before a jury of his peers in his hometown of New York City and was found guilty 34 times. I think that is great punishment.
What’s also great punishment is the sentencing today, where the judge said, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, but you’re a convicted felon. And so for the rest of his life, any story written about him will have to mention the fact that he’s a convicted felon, if not on the first reference, definitely by the second reference.
And that is fitting, that is right, that is just. Do I wish the other three cases had gone to trial and that he had faced accountability on those? Yes, but this will do.
