Any serious person who looked at the details of the charges and the trial would not be celebrating. Far from it. I can’t stand Trump but this is a very dangerous precedent. All those celebrating should be aware that it will massively backfire.
Every other agency of law and government (all anti-Trump) passed on this case as they thought it was absurd. The DA, Bragg, used ‘get Trump’ as part of his election campaign. No one has ever been charged with paying hush money EVER in NY, where soft on crime policies mean rapists and violent criminals go free every day.
It’s not illegal to pay hush money. Rich men have been doing it forever. There needed to be an underlying crime. And no one has specified what that was. The jury was given 4 different options to pick from. And Trump wasn’t told what they were until Wednesday. The defence didn’t get to speak last, and they hardly needed a prosecutor, the judge was so nakedly biased. The trial should never have been held in Manhattan, the most anti-Trump place in the US.
This trial would never have happened to anyone who wasn’t called Donald Trump, and would never have happened (just before the election) if Trump wasn’t a presidential nominee.
Rejoice all you want, but you’re not on the right side of anything here. Biden only escaped charges recently because he was labelled a ‘confused old man’. He showered with his pubescent daughter against her will, and has enriched his son and other family members to the tune of millions. A supine press has given him a free pass on everything - including his history (and v recent, some of it) of egregious racism. He is currently circumventing a ruling of the Supreme Court who told him he couldn’t wipe billions of dollars of student loans (pass them onto working class people).
The worst thing is that this has crossed a rubicon in a country already fatally and divided by a clearly senile Biden and his whipping up of hate towards people who don’t vote for him. Just the other week he told black graduates they had no chance of succeeding in America that white people hated them. EVERYTHING is about hate, division and cynical identity politics (see also ‘trans’ obsession and the elimination of women’s rights under Title IX - which I wonder how many UK women are even aware of)
Now watch and see Republicans think ‘fair’s fair’ and bring charges against Obama, Bill and Hillary for matters such as Afghanistan, deleted emails and so much more.
Only those with a very basic grasp of American politics (and that is most people in the UK) and those who can’t see past their own ‘orange man bad’ blind tribalism could be celebrating this.