Republican Senators Beg Judge To Not Throw Trump The Felon In Jail

Republicans in the Senate are terrified of the thought of Donald Trump, a convicted felon, going to jail, so they are warning Judge Juan Merchan against sending him to prison or even giving him house arrest. These pleas are coming from the same Party that has spent the past 4 years about Democrats allegedly being "soft on crime," meanwhile they are begging a judge to not imprison a man that was just convicted of 34 felonies. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republicans in the US Senate are terrified of the fact that Donald Trump is gonna go to jail. And of course, that would seriously impact Republicans in down ballot races. So they are now warning the judge, judge Juan Rashan, against giving Donald Trump a jail sentence. Even though of course, Donald Trump was convicted of all 34 felony counts. And each one comes with a minimum sentence, I believe, or, or possibly a maximum. I guess I, I think it's maximum of like four years in jail. So I don't think Trump's gonna be sentenced to 136 years in jail. But it's also a possibility, you know, less than a 1% chance. But it could still happen. But Republicans in the Senate are now warning the judge, you better not throw our guy in jail, because that would just be, you know, terrible for democracy. The people that for the last several years have told us that Democrats are soft on crime are now begging a judge to not jail a man convicted of 34 felonies.

Here's what they said. First you got Republican Senator John Cornyn, who said it would be a further abuse of power to incarcerate Trump, or even sentence him to home confinement. He should get no penalty for 34 felonies. But he went on to say, I'm very troubled by what I see in the way the courts have been weaponized. It used to be there were some institutions in America, namely the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Courts, which were regarded as outta bounds for overt partisan politics. But unfortunately that's changed enough for the better. Yeah, the FBI has never been politicized. Right? It's not like they've gone out there over the last few decades spying on protesters, spying on civil rights activists, hell spying on musicians and artists like the FBI has always been a partisan, horrible organization. You idiot, Republican senator Ted Butt of North Carolina said it would be foolish for the judge to sentence to, uh, Trump to jail or house arrest.

So again, like no punishment at all, he added, when you see the conviction and the rules that he instructed the jury with, it's completely unfair. It's unconstitutional. And I would put nothing past him at this point. A tough sentence would only strengthen the resolve of the Americans to support President Trump. You sure about that, Senator Bud? Sure about that, bud. Because literally every poll released since the conviction shows the exact opposite. So crack a newspaper open every now and then, bud, you'll figure something out. Republican Senator Tom Tillis said, quote, with this process, anything is possible unless they can pretty quickly find examples of where similar cases have resulted in prison time. It just adds more fuel to the fire that it was District Attorney Alvin Bragg's, politically motivated decision to ask for jail time. So unless you can show that other people went to jail, you can't send him to jail. So, okay. That's also, by the way, not how the law works. You, somebody will always

Be the first person to go to jail for something, right, that's just the way it is. It's like if you go back in time, you're like, you can't put this guy in jail for murder. Nobody's ever gone to jail for murder. Yeah, there's a first for everything, idiot.