In American politics, few figures have sparked as much controversy as President-elect Donald Trump. His legal woes, especially the hush money conviction in New York, have been talked about since he won the election.
Now, Judge Juan M. Merchan has postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction.
This delay has left many speculating about the future of the case, especially in light of Trump’s recent electoral victory.
Sentencing had been set for November 26, 2024. Now, prosecutors appear open to the possibility that the proceedings can’t go as planned.
Speaking with the Vaultz News, Kwaku Nuamah, Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University, stated that Trump is not going to do any jail time, “but that case will probably fall apart.”
“But even if it doesn’t fall apart, there’s a question of whether you can charge somebody at the state level for federal crimes. So that case will probably go all the way to the Supreme Court.
“If it goes to the Supreme Court, it will be overturned, the commissions will be overturned because the Republicans control the Supreme Court. Now it’s 6-3. They have 6 votes to Democrats 3. And so they can do anything. So that case will probably fall apart.”
Kwaku Nuamah
Commenting on the other cases, he noted that the state cases are different, citing the Georgia election overturn case. “That case will continue,” he said.
“The Prosecutor, Fanni Williams, was reelected. But Georgia has a Republican Governor. And so Republicans can muddy up that case as well and they’re going to try and slow off it.”
Kwaku Nuamah
He said that the E. Jean Carol case won’t “go anywhere because it’s a civil case and he’s already been convicted for that.”
“But the federal ones will go away. The state ones will not go away automatically, but as I said, he can interfere and even if they decide to go ahead with the prosecution, the justice department has rules about whether a sitting President can be prosecuted. So it’s probably going to go on ice till he leaves the presidency.”
Kwaku Nuamah
Harris’ Loss Examined
Despite Trump being a convicted felon, he still won the election, handing defeat to Vice President, Kamala Harris.
In the interview, Professor Kwaku Nuamah shed light on some reasons why Trump’s main competitor, Kamala Harris was unable to clinch electoral victory, saying that her loss was not in isolation.
According to the Expert, Harris bore the brunt of incumbency penalty. “Coming out of the chaos of the COVID years and inflation and other stuff, incumbents everywhere are being tossed out. And so she was already behind the eight ball,” he said.
Also, he said that Harris has a late start, pointing out that biden sty in the race for long.
“Barack Obama, for example, has written that it takes about a year to learn how to run for, President. And she only had, like, 3 months and a couple of days to try and do that. So that delay caused her. It made it harder for her to define herself. And she didn’t separate herself from Biden.”
Kwaku Nuamah
Additionally, Nuamah stressed that Harris was scathed by the fire of a divided supporter base. He noted that she came into the race with a “very fractious electorate behind her,” saying that the democratic coalition has been falling apart for a while now. “The Democrats used to be the party of labor, but they’ve moved away from labor. They’ve become a party of, city dwelling, educated people so they left the labor and the rural vote up for Trump,” he voiced.
He mentioned that the Gaza war also split the democratic coalition between young people and the older Democrats.
“So people from Joe Biden’s generation, for example, they remember Israel as a victim. They remember Israel as a small country in the Middle East that all the Arabs were ganging up against. This country that came out of the holocaust, the Second World War, that had to be protected. That’s what they think Israel is. Whereas young people today think of Israel as the Israel of Netanyahu, which is the occupying power with weapons, with American money, and it’s just going around killing whoever they want to kill.
“So there’s completely different perspectives on this war where one side of the Democratic coalition supports it. Unfortunately, the older people are the ones with the money…versus young people who bring the energy to their party, who are against Harris because she wouldn’t take a stand on US sending weapons to Israel.”
Kwaku Nuamah
He added that many Arab Americans, who have a sizable population in Michigan, voted against her. Michigan is one of the battleground states.
Furthermore, Nuamah remarked that the election was decided by turnout. “About 87,000,000 people didn’t vote this election and a lot of those who didn’t vote were Democrats,” he voiced.
Moreover, the Professor stated that gender and race played a role in Harris’ loss.
“There’s a reason why we haven’t had a female President in the United States yet. It’s very hard for women to crack the glass ceiling.
“Americans pretend in all kinds of ways, but this is still a very patriarchal society. They’re not going to vote for a woman. Eventually, they would, probably, but she wasn’t going to be that one.”
Kwaku Nuamah
He added that Harris had two things against her; “She’s black and she is female.”
Nonetheless, Nuamah opined that in spite of all those problems, Harris still did well. “She got 66,000,000 votes in less than 4 months. That’s not an easy thing to do.”
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