Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart did a touchdown dance of sorts on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he celebrated Donald Trump’s “great punishment” of being formally sentenced to unconditional discharge that history “will have to” mention.
Host Geoff Bennett wondered if the fact that Trump avoided fines and jail time means he is the beneficiary of a double standard, “Donald Trump is vowing to appeal this conviction. We will see what comes of that. But after, you know, being convicted of 34 felonies, there are people who look at this case, and they say that Donald Trump walks away with a punishment that is less than what one would receive for a speeding ticket.”
Capehart was too excited to be concerned with that; he got his conviction, and that is all he cared about:
Look, this case, this hush money case, was the case that…
