The “extraordinary victory” took place on November 5th. Today was just the lame anti-climax.
Despite the fact that Judge Juan Merchan telegraphed his no-consequences sentence — and that the Supreme Court made it clear that Merchan had to follow through — the outcome of the Alvin Bragg prosecution stunned CNN’s panel immediately afterward. Noting that an “unconditional discharge” rarely gets applied in felony convictions, the commentators grudgingly admitted Donald Trump won in the end:
JIM ACOSTA: Not just the sentence of an unconditional release, which means he’s not going to do any jail time. The fact that he is going to be going into the White House as a convicted felon, but the fact that he appeared virtually in those stunning images we just saw a few moments ago of him appearing in the courtroom on a flat screen in front of the judge, with his…
