I think that there's for the diehards,
they're going to be the same.
But in many ways, this was the most problematic case
because it was the most difficult for prosecutors to prove.
And yet this is one in which the jury was
only out for a day and a half.
Without a doubt,
Trump's conviction is a major right.
This is a major source of kind of political capital
for the Biden campaign.
This was a complicated case based upon the instructions that
the judge gave these jurors.
And in the end, it seemed that they did seem
it was even a close call.
This is a very quick verdict.
And what it says to me is that jurors thought
that prosecutors easily proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt
and that every one of these jurors ultimately believed that
former President Trump had committed this offence.
The fact that this was a
34 count indictment and that jurors unanimously agreed that the
government had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt and
every single one of them is a sweeping victory for
prosecutors and suggests that jurors here really had no doubts
at all about the ultimate guilt of the former president
in regards to these crimes.
Without a doubt,
Trump's conviction is a major,
right? This is a major source of kind of political
capital for the Biden campaign to point to kind of
reinforcing
President Biden's campaign theme about democracy at stake,
right? That the value that that you can't have.
How can you have a convicted criminal holding the highest
office in the country?
And this is just one of four right criminal cases,
probably the only one that will kind of go to
the only one that went to trial,
has gone to trial. Unlikely to see the other three
go forward in the coming months.
But without a doubt, the Biden campaign,
I think is going to stress the rule of law,
the importance of character of the presidency being the highest
political office in the land
and and then the and the danger of,
of having someone who is focused on criminal investigations rather
than the national interest.
Without a doubt, that will be a strong campaign platform.
A president hasn't even been indicted before,
let alone convicted on all 34 counts.
And it had some complications.
The case had some complications,
but the sweeping, the sweep of this is is pretty
amazing and pretty impressive on this trial that the issues
in this trial,
forgetting all the others. I have always thought that this
trial was the most damaging to him.
Even though the legal issues are not as consequential,
you know, they're not constitutional issues like some of the
trials down the road will be.
And the reason I think it's the most damaging is
it goes to his character.
It is pretty clear that the man had an affair
with a woman when his wife was home with their
new baby.
And there's 52% of the population called women who think
that's pretty pretty much a bad thing to do.
And then what came out in this trial,
which was, I think, you know,
under reported, but I think
a lot of people paid attention to is that he
didn't really care what his wife thought
the cover up was not to keep it from his
wife,
which is what most people would do and what most
people would think.
His cover up was all about the election and damage
to the election.
I think those two things,
regardless of the legal arguments to and fro,
are gonna affect a lot of people,
particularly women who are 55%
of the electorate. And so I think it's it's
that piece of this, the story itself,
the narrative itself, I think is even worse than the
fact that he's now a felon 34 times.