Donald Trump didn't just win the presidency on Tuesday. He also prevailed against the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to hold him accountable for attempting to overturn the 2020 election and the classified documents he held onto after he lost.
Trump's two federal criminal cases, lengthy legal slogs drawn out by his successful plan to delay justice until politics could save him, are about to come to an abrupt end.
Here is what else will happen: Trump will use the good-faith efforts of public servants in a bad-faith effort to again mislead Americans about why he faced criminal charges in the first place. He will cast a legal victory won at the ballot box, not in a courtroom, as proof that the charges against him were somehow illegitimate.
They were not.
Trump also faces criminal liabilities in New York, where he was convicted on 34 felony counts in May, and in Georgia, where he still faces charges for his failed attempt at overturning the 2020 election there.
Trump has a hearing Tuesday in New York for his attempt to have that conviction overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court's most politically bent justices in July injected uncertainty into all his criminal cases by saying he could be tried but had immunity for any actions taken in his official capacity as president.
His sentencing in that case is set for Nov. 26. He's a felon. And he's not president. Not yet. We have a verdict. We should get a sentence, too.
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