SOME THOUGHTS ON TRUMP'S CONVICTION

Trump's lawyers were hoping for a hung jury, instead they got a hanging jury

 By Howie Katz 

 

 

After two days of deliberation, a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

I do not believe any other person would have been so charged. This was simply a political persecution. The Democrats are desperate in trying to keep Trump from regaining the White House.

Having said that though, there was plenty of evidence that Trump covered up the fact that he paid Stormy $130,000 to keep her quiet about their making whoopee between the sheets. 

Paying hush money is not against the law, but covering it up by falsifying business records is. It's the coverup that always gets one into trouble.

Now we're left with the predicament of choosing between a convicted felon and a feeble old man who may croak in the middle of his term if he is reelected.

Will Trump's conviction help or hurt him? Right now he election appears to be very tight.

For the short haul, the conviction will energize Trumps base. But he needs more than his base to get elected. For the long haul, Trump needed this conviction like another hole in the head.

More important than the conviction is the abortion issue. Trump needs the women's vote. But his pronouncement on that issue may very well have cost him that vote.

Also important are the Biden-Trump debates, if they actually take place. If Trump does poorly during the scheduled June 27 debate, he's toast.

Add the abortion issue and a poor debate performance to Trump's conviction, and the nation's voters will elect the first woman president of the United States.