A meme and a song for Trump's sentencing

I wrote, "Unfortunately, Hoover Cleveland is more likely to receive an unconditional release. Sigh." That happened. Watch MSNBC's report BREAKING: Judge sentences Trump to an unconditional discharge in hush money case.

Judge Juan Merchan sentences President-elect Trump to an unconditional discharge in the New York hush money case. Trump remains a convicted felon but faces no other punishment. Former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy Saland, civil rights attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden and former New York Assistant Attorney General Adam Pollock join Ana Cabrera and José Díaz-Balart to discuss. Also, NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard reports from outside the courthouse.

While my prediction that he would not be sentenced to prison for these crimes came true, I can keep calling him a convicted criminal, now convicted felon, and I feel a bit better after watching the MSNBC report, that's cold comfort. This entire exercise demonstrates the truth of this meme.


It worked. Like Donald Trump's whitewashing and inversion of the attack on the Capitol, the new Big Lie, enough people bought it that Trump got re-elected and he avoided any actual punishment. That jammed "the wheels of justice," dashing my hope that I repeated most recently in Colbert and Kimmel examine Jack Smith's filing: "'The wheels of justice are grinding slowly in this case, but I expect they will indeed grind exceedingly fine.' May they also grind exceedingly fine for Trump and his seditious supporters, if not as slowly." Trump escaped before the wheels finished their work. Sigh.

This is enough for me to conclude by recycling the song I used in The law is an ass with music by Leonard Cohen, By request, 'Everybody Knows', and I saw the impeachment verdict coming, but I still don't like it, so here's a cover of 'Everybody Knows', Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Live in London), the song I embed when I'm most disappointed by the legal system (or its political equivalent, impeachment).


It was time to give the original artist his say.

This blog passed its monthly page view goals today, so I'm going to switch from topical posts to evergreen and holiday entries until the end of the month. Stay tuned.