edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol

Also shoutout to @SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone who shared a gift article link in the comments. I hope you don’t mind but I kinda stole it and updated the post

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s true that the contents of this trial can be used for the arguments of the prosecution in the Federal and Georgia election trials, but he was not convicted of any crime other than falsifying business records.

    Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records, a class E felony that is punishable by a fine, probation or up to four years in prison per count.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-prison-hush-money-trial-verdict-rcna153963

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      7 months ago

      according to The Guardian, for it to be considered a felony charge they had to prove that Trump did it with the intent to commit another crime; The other crime being a New York state law that says it is illegal for “any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means”

      So the election interference charge form part of the existing charges without being separate charges in and of themselves

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        The main argument from prosecution to this end was that the encounter happened in 2006 (ish, I might be off) but the hush money wasn’t an issue until the election campaign. Therefore, they argued, it was paid (and covered up with false business records) to influence the election.

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      7 months ago

      The felony upcharge requires he falsify in furtherance of another crime, which was argued to be hiding campaign contributions.

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      7 months ago

      but he was not convicted of any crime other than falsifying business records.

      Cool, but irrelevant as nobody was talking about what laws were technically broken, they were pointing out what being guilty of that means in reality