Guilty guilty guilty
Trump organization found guilty on all counts.
The counts are still being reviewed in the courtroom, but it is substantively over. The jurors are confirming one by one that their verdict has been read accurately. Donald J. Trump’s company has been found by a Manhattan jury to be a felon.
The Trump Organization has been in legal trouble for years, but this is the biggest rebuke yet. The company faces more than $1 million in penalties and it could receive blowback from its lenders and business partners.
Maggie Haberman observes:
Even without Trump personally being charged, this is a devastating day for him. He has long sought to avoid having criminality attached to his name in any way shape or form.
Trump and his children and his company now face a civil suit filed by the New York attorney general accusing them all of widespread and pervasive fraud over a decade.
Dare we hope to see them bankrupted? Having to go live in studio apartments in Kansas and work in a chicken processing plant?
Trump became a presidential candidate for a third time just three weeks ago, a move he made in part as a shield against other investigations he is facing, including one in Georgia and two by the Justice Department.
I’m thinking it can’t be all that healthy for a political campaign to have the candidate’s company found guilty on multiple fraud charges.
You really do hate him! I always tell people I went to college so I wouldn’t have to work in a chicken processing plant. If that seems pretty specific, keep in mind that I grew up on a farm, and I spent many a nauseating afternoon plucking chickens.
That’s “glass half full” thinking! This is right in line with his brand. Think of all the free publicity!* All those stories where “Trump” appears prominantly in nearly every sentence! His face on every news show, his name on everyone’s lips. Sticking it to the
lawman! Glorious!* Remember, “There is no such thing as bad publicity…except your own obituary.” I do hope in Trump’s case that there’s some progress soon on the second half of this.
Ya the chicken processing plant was very deliberate. I’ve read quite a lot about what a horrendous job that is over the years – horrendous in itself and made worse by the speed at which the workers are forced to do it, the lack of regulation, the total absence of unions, and on and on. I think someone at the New Yorker, maybe Jane Mayer, did a long piece on it early in the pandemic…
Yes, it was Jane Mayer.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-trump-is-helping-tycoons-exploit-the-pandemic
I’m absolutely serious about how good it would be to see Donald Trump have to do that job.
As an aside to the thread, but related to chicken farms. In a former job I once spent two days in a chicken processing plant measuring worker exposure to noise and dust (chicken feathers are full of dust – not much of it nice dust). I still bring it up even though it was well over two decades ago. The noise, the cold, the damp, but above all the mechanised horror of death. This wasn’t a big plant, but it was processing two chickens per second on a single processing line. There were many fascinating bits, but the machine that plucked the carcasses of feathers was truely impressive, while the machine that neatly extracted the entire gut bag intact from the chicken, and then at the QA inspection station some minutes later bought the offal back synchronised with the original host, was truely macabre. And yes, I still eat chicken. Interesting to see where and how your food appears though.
Rob, I’ve seen quite a lot of animal farming too, from egg farms to cattle ranches, and from small butcher shops to meat processing factories. Most of the industry is truly horrific, and while I’m for people knowing where their food comes from, the amount of death is extreme and the toll on the environment is significant, not to mention the toll on the people who become numb to it by not having better employment options. I think if people knew more about this and less about fecking pronouns the world would be a better place. I’d say put Trump on the other end of the digestive infrastructure like a sewer plant. Put him near the intake pipes.