The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, announced earlier today that sentencing will be postponed indefinitely. We don't know exactly how long, but I'm guessing for the rest of time that's what it's looking like. And it actually even gets worse than that, which we'll get into. [00:00:16] Bear in mind if you're not familiar with this and if you're not and you voted. But anyway, he was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records over payments made to his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, to reimburse a $130, 000 hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep [00:00:33] her from speaking out about an alleged affair before the 2016 election. So we had been waiting to find out what the penalty for that would be, and sentencing had been scheduled literally months ago. But Judge Juan Merchan announced today that the Trump legal team's request, [00:00:50] to to delay it indefinitely is going to be allowed and that on top of that, he's going to allow them to file a motion to dismiss the case entirely. That's due by the second. And then at some point he'll respond to it. [00:01:06] But it is certainly looking like we're never going to get justice out of this, which really isn't a surprise to a lot of people, I don't think. But it's becoming more official with every sitting moment. And I want to give you two statements, one from Trump lawyer Todd Blanche, who many people thought might be the A.G., [00:01:22] said just as a sitting president is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as president elect, which I don't think that's based on literally anything. But I do like the hint, at least, that Donald Trump could begin shooting people now, and he'd be perfectly fine from prosecution. [00:01:38] And Stephen Chung, Trump's spokesperson, said all of the sham lawfare attacks against President Trump are now destroyed. And we are focused on making America great again. So it's great that Stephen Chung is having a good day. Yeah. So, John, this is a tough one. [00:01:55] Why is it a tough one? Because what are they going to do, put the president in prison. And yeah he deserves it, and he should be sentenced and he shouldn't be above the law. But we all know they're not going to do that. So. But then if you don't do it and and now Jack Smith is going to drop the [00:02:12] other cases, which I think is a mistake. I'm going to come back to that in a second. Well then you are saying, oh, we were just doing this for politics. And now that he won, we never meant any of these cases. We're just going to drop them all. So this is a no win situation. [00:02:31] And it's brought to you by the incompetent, weak, useless Merrick Garland who started these trials way too late. And again, we're not Monday morning quarterback. We said in the beginning, why isn't he going? Why isn't he going? And in New York as well, Alvin Bragg, why isn't he going? [00:02:49] You can go back and look at my old tapes of me saying the the coward of the country, Alvin Bragg, get going. If you're going to charge him, you have to charge him in the beginning, not near the end. And they waited for two and a half years. I guess it was political. I guess they didn't care at all. [00:03:04] They were all just goddamn liars who don't care about the law and just want to use it against Trump for politics. And now that it didn't work, they're like, who cares? Just drop them all. And it's it's infuriating. Yeah, yeah, I agree they're in a difficult position, but I don't [00:03:19] have a lot of empathy for them. I think America is in a far more difficult position. I mean, we're we're all sitting here wondering what laws are still going to mean anything going forward. But I don't think we need to look to the future. Most of our laws don't matter now. Not not when it's a billionaire who has violated them. [00:03:36] Crimes count, I guess. Unless you're popular. I guess unless tens of millions of people like you, then you can do literally anything you want. And that's not me saying that. That's the judicial system saying that. And that's already true. And so we know it's going to get darker from where we're at. [00:03:52] Our starting point is already deeply unjust, which makes me even more worried about now that he knows there's not even a hope of consequences. What won't Donald Trump do at this point? Well, that's the number one concern that I had after the election. [00:04:08] One of the things that I said is, look, a lot of people freaked out. We're going to leave the country. I said I wasn't in that camp, as you guys know from election night. I'm always in the camp of let's fight back. Let's be fair. Let's figure out what's going to happen, best strategy going forward, etc.. But one thing you have to be realistic about is there are no [00:04:25] more brakes in the car, right? So there is no accountability at all. Not only is he immune from the law while he's president now, they're going to drop all the charges against him before he goes into office. None of the impeachments worked. None of the indictments worked. [00:04:41] None of the convictions worked. Nothing worked. So if you think, oh, Donald Trump will be worried that they'll impeach him or or try him. No he won't. Of course he won't. That's ridiculous. So if he decides to go in the wrong direction, there's nothing that can stop him. So that is deeply concerning. And so back to Jack Smith. [00:04:59] No, brother, if you believed in those cases, and I definitely believe in those cases you go forward and make Trump and the cases. Yeah. Because then that way he is corrupt and he's ending the perfectly legitimate federal case against him. But if you drop it before he gets into office, it looks like you're dropping it [00:05:18] because of political reasons. 100%. So these Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, all these guys useless, useless, useless. Super fast. I don't want to play devil's advocate for him. Is it possible that if he winds it down, he has control over [00:05:34] what information might be released? But if he hangs on and Pam Bondi just throws his ass out the front door, then he can't release information. He can't release evidence or whatever. No, I don't I don't know why that would be the case at all. Look, I'm not discounting the possibility that there's something [00:05:50] I haven't thought of. And and look, Jack Smith is not Merrick Garland. Jack Smith is a professional prosecutor. He just got put on the case too late. And I disagree with this decision, but it's possible that Jack Smith knows something I don't know. But having said that, barring a legal precedent I'm not familiar with. [00:06:08] This looks like a bad decision. I agree they should force Trump to end his own prosecutions. I agree. Final. Was it not Jack Smith who chose to have the classified documents case be adjudicated by Eileen Cannon? No, he decided to do that. No, he chose not to do it in DC and she got randomly assigned to it. [00:06:26] Randomly assigned. Okay. Well, yes. Okay. Still, that didn't end up helping out much. But no, it didn't because cannon is enormously corrupt and will do anything for Trump, so she stands a pretty decent chance of being on the Supreme Court. Also, it was locations in DC that got robbed, so arguably that should be [00:06:41] where the case was adjudicated. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. 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