The scene outside the New York City courthouse following the news of Trump’s guilty verdict.Screenshot: NBC News
Former president Donald Trump became convicted felon Donald Trump on Thursday after he was found guilty on 34 criminal counts in his New York hush money trial. And while Trump won’t be sentenced until July, huge sections of the internet celebrated that Trump was finally facing consequences after so many years of being above the law.
Social media platforms like Bluesky, Reddit, TikTok, and X (nee Twitter), were inundated with peppery memes, arid jokes, and celebratory songs after the world learned Trump had been found guilty on all counts. Trump supporters, on the other hand, hilariously declared the verdict to be the end of America.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just a few days before the start of the Republican National Convention, which takes place in Milwaukee from July 15-18. Trump faces a maximum of four years in jail, but most legal experts assume he probably won’t spend even a day in the slammer. Any normal convict would likely face some jail time, given the fact that Trump violated a judge’s gag order 10 times in a stunning display of contempt for the court.
While Thursday’s verdict over hush money payments feels a bit like nabbing Al Capone on tax evasion rather than all the murders, those who can’t stand the former president gotta take what they can get. This is, after all, the guy who tried to launch a coup against Congress on January 6, 2021, and was caught on tape saying he just wanted to “find” 11,000 votes in Georgia in an unprecedented attempt to blatantly steal an election.
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