The New York Times: Breaking News: Manhattan prosecutors agreed to delay Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing to weigh whether the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.

Breaking News: Manhattan prosecutors agreed to delay Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing to weigh whether the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.

Manhattan Prosecutors Agree to Delay Trump’s Sentencingwww.nytimes.com Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.

Um, didn't he do that before he became president? Linear time is a thing.

Some pieces of the evidences happened literally in the white house (signing checks)

But they weren’t official acts by any definition.

that's the fun part, only SCOTUS gets to define what's official now I'm sure you can see where that's headed

Absolutely. John Roberts will declare that illegally paying a porn star with whom you cheated on your wife is an official act.

Jesus fucking Christ

Or, just hear me out on this, they could arrest the justices as co-conspirators.

Or tax evasion, at least.

How in the wide world of sports could laundering money through his business to cover up an affair for his campaign possibly be deemed an "official act" of the president?

Especially since he was not yet president then.

Maybe the argument goes that he was president at the time the reimbursements were paid to Cohen. It's a very flimsy argument that should not hold water.

An official act, ya know. President buying pornstars silence.

It's the Hoover Dam if John Roberts squints just right.

Arguing a president has absolute immunity should not have held any water, either, yet here we are.

We are now in a world where lawyers will argue that farting is an “official act” so… ya

If farting is an official presidential act, I've clearly missed my calling! 💥

the first rule of fascism is dont cooperate preemptively!!!

Screw that, sentence him and let the Supreme Court deal with it.

It was an election interference case, The New York Times

Nauseating. USA, you are sick. Really sick. Trump is a carreer criminal who must be jailed for the rest of his despicable life.

What the fuck does covering up hush money payments to the adult film star you had an affair with have to do with the office of the presidency?

My guess: because the public finding out about the scandal would erode confidence in the office of the presidency. Which is basically ‘hurray for political coverups’ but that’s the least of what SCOTUS has greenlit.

🙄😡

enough with the “porn star” shit grow up and be an adult editor

Yeah, keep enabling the felon.

manhattan prosecutors: "thank you sir for the fascism may i have another"

FFS, how was paying off a porn star BEFORE he was President even tangentially linked to official duties. This is a two minute discussion then push on with the sentencing.

Here we go! It didn't even take a week for them to start turning the wheels on it!

Remember when they thought it was the WORST THING EVER when Clinton got a bj while he was in Office? Wow.

Absolutely spineless

Fuck this shit

What a shit hole country 🤦‍♂️

The fucking crimes were BEFORE he was President what the fuck?!

I’m not sure what Presidential duty that would fall under. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I'm not the type to say "I told you so." But I did inform you thusly.

Gosh. Was he President then? Did any of your reporters push back and ask if he was President then. Because by my math, he wasn't and therefore enjoys zero immunity for this crime. You have a nice day. Maybe think about doing your job once in a while.

How does this make sense? The actions in question for which he was convicted took place before he was elected President.

Obviously, if you become president it is because you were chosen by god from birth to be president. Therefore, anything you do in your life is an official act and you have absolute immunity. duh. /s

Well the way the Supremes see it is that Trump would become president and stay president forever so anything he’s done since birth is part of his job as President therefore it is official duty. I guess they will have to look at every case he’s been in and negate any penalties! He’s the CHOSEN one!

shithole country

Submitted the same day the decision came down. It's almost like trump's team knew well in advance what the ruling would be. Imagine that.

we’re gonna end up owing him money by the time this is all over.

Can‘t see how that would be covered by the ruling since it happened before he took office

If you're keeping score: POTUS: Above the law* Cops: Above the law Homeless folks: Buried under the law *if you're a Republican

Crazy.

I guess it really is time to learn to speak Russian.

He wasn’t President. Are they going to overturn all his crimes because some racist, sexist bigots got their feelings hurt and voted for a moronic career criminal?

Sorry, but why would it? The conviction was for an action undertaken by a CANDIDATE WHO WAS NOT YET PRESIDENT. How can the 'official act' immunity possibly apply?

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