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Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and there is some good news
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for former President Donald Trump after he was convicted on all those counts in Manhattan
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Before we get started, please make sure you like, comment, share, and subscribe. Those little things
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really help us out and they help our channel continue to grow. The wheels of justice tend to
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move very slowly and that can be very frustrating for people, especially those of us who are looking
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for a quick resolution before an election, you know, an important one, let's say presidential
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election. You want a quick resolution and sometimes those wheels of justice, they just
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they move slow. You know, if you've ever been to a court, you know that that's the case, right? So
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now, you know, here comes former President Donald Trump's sentencing and it's scheduled for July
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It's scheduled for July 11th, I believe, and you know, the Republican National Convention just a
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few days later. But the whole case might actually be overturned and there's actually good reason to
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overturn the case and that's the good news for President Trump, but he has to wait for the
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sentencing before he can even appeal. I want you to take a look at this and let me know what you
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think about what's being said here. Will this case be overturned? Was Trump railroaded? Let me know
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in the comments right after you watch this. I've always seen in these trials in the past, Jonathan
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and maybe you and I have talked about them where, you know, it is sentencing day and usually the
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person who has been targeted has notes or letters or comments, but friends or colleagues who say
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wonderful things about him or her, depending on the case. And I'm wondering if the judge has a
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sentence in mind, does he say, oh, I was going to give him 20 years now, I think I'll give him 10
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because he has all these nice, you know, people vouching for him. Or does it move the needle at all
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I think it can move the needle on the margins. I think judges generally come in
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with a fairly good idea of a narrow range where they want to send someone
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Sometimes the allocution, sometimes the statement of the defendant can actually irritate a judge
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and push you towards the top of that, that bandwidth for the judge. I think that people
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coming in and talking about the person can have some influence. With Trump, I don't believe that's
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going to be the case. Like everything else about this case, he came fully baked in the view of many
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people, jurors and judge. I think people have this idea of who Trump is. They either love him or they
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hate him. I've never met anyone in the middle of those two camps. And so I don't think that the
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needle is going to move much here. But it also would be absurd to send him to jail. He is an
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elderly first offender, nonviolent crime in a very controversial prosecution. This whole case
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could could be overturned ultimately on appeal. I think that Judge Mershawn would be considerably
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outside the navigational beacons to send him to even a day in jail. Still, he's going to face
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enormous political pressure, right, to do something. And it could go both ways, right? Those who want
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to see Donald Trump in prison and those who fear that if he does go to prison, even for a short
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amount of time, it's going to cement his return to the White House. So does he weigh that or is
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he beyond the policy? I think that's true. Well, he's not supposed to. And I have to say, I don't
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mean to be gratuitous towards the judge. But after sitting in that courtroom, I wouldn't be surprised
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by anything. I thought he was really quite biased in terms of his rulings. They went very heavily
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towards the prosecution. I don't know if he normally is known as a pro prosecution judge
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but some of his rulings did not make a lot of sense. There's a lot of pressure. You know, when
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I came out of that courtroom after the verdict, it was like the Roman games. I mean, people were
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ecstatic to a point that it was difficult to watch. People were dancing in the streets
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That's the environment around this courthouse. And there were other people who were in deep
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agony and sorrow. It was a picture of the United States, and it was not necessarily a good one. I
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mean, I stood there for a second and took it in because it was such a bizarre bifurcated scene
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