Letters to Bette: Trump 'Hush Money' Sentencing Revisit By Martin Sheil
Retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil revisits Trump's Hush Money/Election sentencing and calls it a 'watered down anti-climactic sub drama'
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While in Washington DC, I happened to meet a judge who happened to know Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, and my new acquaintance said Merchan is a terrific person. I had no doubt. In this Letter to Bette, retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil weighs in on the upcoming sentencing in Trump’s ‘Hush Money’/Election Interference case.
Letters to Bette: Trump 'Hush Money' Sentencing Revisit
A ‘watered down anti-climactic sub drama’
By Martin Sheil
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Trump is now scheduled for his Hush Money sentencing before NY Judge Merchan this coming Friday, January 10.
While the good Judge may allow the Trumpster to waive personal appearance and Zoom into the court for this made for television reality show, His Honor has already signaled that no jail time will be provided the coming Grifter-in Chief.
So why the interest?
I can't help myself in wondering how this sentencing might go down if the Fraudster in Chief and his cultish followers had not gamed and co-opted the Rule of Law to this watered down anti-climactic sub drama.
Which brings me to an earlier piece where I envisioned a chastened "Donald" who publicly expressed both guilt and remorse for his frauds and took full "responsibility" for his frauds in order to lower his punitive exposure - like most decent regular folks would ...
So the above prologue brings me to my request of Bette Dangerous to re-publish my previous imagining of a humbled "Donnie" standing before the honorable Judge and taking responsibility for his frauds.
I think it is timely and topical and mindful of another America and another time in our history pre-MAGA - when men were men and man enough to "take responsibility" for their actions and make blanket admissions to their guilt when they were found to be clearly in the wrong ... and not a whiny play actor vocalizing his so-called victimhood in a transparently overt effort to transform his valid prosecutive felony conviction into a phony persecution.
Play it again Bette…
It serves to remind us what we don't have and what we are missing when the rule of law reflective of a better time is so shamelessly gamed.
Now is the time as we honor the passing of the most honorable and decent American President in modern times - Jimmy Carter - who reflected the very best of the greatness of America.
The contrast could not be more clear.
Sad...
marty
Marty’s lovely words for President Carter reminded me of my all-time favorite quote from Carter:
“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”— President Jimmy Carter, June 28, 2019
Onward.
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