{"id":64684,"date":"2025-01-10T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64684"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:04:27","slug":"whine-whine-whine-convicted-felon-trump-clings-to-fox-news-legal-hacks-at-sentencing-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64684","title":{"rendered":"WHINE, WHINE, WHINE! Convicted Felon Trump Clings to Fox News Legal Hacks at Sentencing Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official! Donald Trump is a convicted felon. On Friday morning <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/10\/politics\/takeaways-trump-hush-money-sentencing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">he was sentenced<\/a><\/strong> in the state of New York for having falsified financial documents in order to cover up his affair with an adult film star so that his infidelity would not impair his electoral prospects. He is thus the first convicted felon to be elected and serve as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=WHINE, WHINE, WHINE! Convicted Felon Trump Clings to Fox News Legal Hacks at Sentencing Hearing%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64684\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-wah.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Wah\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Trump&#8217;s response to this development was a bellicose burst of babbling about what a pitiful victim he is of some imaginary cabal of diabolical enemies determined to destroy him. His mental deterioration is escalating at a rapid pace as he prepares to reoccupy the White House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64641\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Press Conference is the Best Evidence Yet that He is Positively, Irreparably Insane<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s sentencing hearing featured Trump in a remote appearance complaining about his being given an <em>&#8220;unconditional discharge,&#8221;<\/em> which means that he would not be serving any time in prison or paying any financial penalty. Judge Juan Merchan explained that this was the only option available due to Trump&#8217;s reelection and the Supreme Court&#8217;s granting him immunity for virtually any crime he committed. But apparently, even that was too harsh a sentence for crybaby Trump. He whined to the court that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The top legal scholars and legal pundits in this country, the ones that are quoted all the time on television that are making their views felt and highly respected people, have said everyone, virtually everyone that I know of &#8211; I haven\u2019t seen any to the contrary, not one &#8211; and these people are not exactly friends of mine, to put it mildly &#8211; but they all said this is a case that should have never been brought. It\u2019s an injustice of justice. Very respected, Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Judge David Rivkin, a wonderful man who just passed away, by the way, Greg Jarrett, Elie Honig from CNN of all places, CNN said that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lffkwv5k622p\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiaetq2ghrvd6iqzswhu3x444z2bqd3jtghfdsh67tbdsb2bc36sim\">\n<p lang=\"en\">&#34;Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy &#8230; &#34; &#8211;Trump during his sentencing hearing today: But Fox News says I&#39;m innocent<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3lffkwv5k622p?ref_src=embed\">2025-01-10T16:02:45.198Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Trump&#8217;s sappy soliloquy was light years removed from reality. There were many legal scholars, on television and elsewhere, who found the charges against Trump to be warranted. He only bothered to mention by name a few who are regular fixtures on Fox News. And if he really believes that those were <em>&#8220;everyone that I know of&#8221;<\/em> and that <em>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen any to the contrary, not one,&#8221;<\/em> he is sicker than anyone could have previously imagined. for some accurate analysis, he might want to refer to the highly respected Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Joyce Vance, or Harry Littman, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s Fox News pundits are staunch devotees of his MAGA cult. Contrary to his claim that they are not his friends, they are longtime Trump-fluffers who have spent years shamelessly defending him on the network that serves as his Ministry of Propaganda. And which also serves as his recruiting pool for his new Cabinet and administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64579\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Names Two More Fox News Flunkies to Join His MAGA Media Infested White House<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for Trump&#8217;s fox News pundits being <em>&#8220;highly respected,&#8221;<\/em> their analyses were aired on the same Fox News that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56737\" target=\"_blank\">had to shell out 3\/4 of a billion dollars<\/a><\/strong> for lying on Trump&#8217;s behalf about his <em>&#8220;big Lie&#8221;<\/em> that the 2020 election was <em>&#8220;rigged and stolen&#8221;<\/em> from him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump followed up his sentencing hearing with a comment on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64392\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, where he dismissed the hearing as <em>&#8220;a despicable charade.&#8221;<\/em> He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/29004\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a><\/strong> that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers. [&#8230;] Today\u2019s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax. [&#8230;] And I\u2019d just like to explain that I was treated very, very unfairly. And I thank you very much.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently to Trump, his being sentenced for 34 felonies is a pathetic loss for Democrats. Perhaps so, since he was spared prison time that he deserves, and is headed for the White House to renew his assault on democracy and America. But it is hardly a win for him to make history as the first convicted felon president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump actually makes a good point about <em>&#8220;wasting 6 years&#8221;<\/em> on his prosecution. But he fails to grasp that it was all his fault for having committed his crimes in the first place. And he is intent on wasting even more time by appealing the sentence that he says was <em>&#8220;very, very unfair.&#8221;<\/em> Indeed it was. Because if it were fair he would have been incarcerated long ago like any other defendant. Instead, Trump resorts to his natural state of whining petulantly. Which is something that he has proudly bragged about&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am the most fabulous whiner. I do whine, because I want to win. I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xms8iV8ae-c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64662\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Embraces Dear Leader Trump\u2019s Imperialist Plans to Invade and Annex Greenland and Panama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64564\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Insults America and its Justice Institutions as \u2018SCUM\u2019 Just Weeks Before His Inauguration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official! Donald Trump is a convicted felon. On Friday morning he was sentenced in the state of New York for having falsified financial documents in order to cover up his affair with an adult film star so that his infidelity would not impair his electoral prospects. 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