This, finally, is a court of criminal law.
There will be facts submitted for the record.
And eventually, in an estimated six weeks or so, there will be a verdict from a jury of Trump’s peers.
So, with any luck, by Memorial Day or so, we’ll be able to write the phrase that has been crying to be written for about 35 years: “Convicted felon Donald Trump.”.
The pro-Trump media will say he was railroaded, and the mainstream media will move on to the next story.
Not many Americans have served on juries—about one in 10 in the last decade, according to this survey.
But a jury’s verdict has an authority and finality for these Americans that a Sean Hannity rant or a New York Times editorial lacks. »
