{"id":30210,"date":"2025-01-10T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/dems-eerily-silent-on-trump-sentencing-as-they-prepare-for-republican-trifecta-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:17:11","slug":"dems-eerily-silent-on-trump-sentencing-as-they-prepare-for-republican-trifecta-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/dems-eerily-silent-on-trump-sentencing-as-they-prepare-for-republican-trifecta-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems eerily silent on Trump sentencing as they prepare for Republican trifecta in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic lawmakers were noticeably silent following the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump<\/a> despite previously commenting on the cases against him, as Washington prepares for a Republican trifecta in Congress.<\/p>\n

Trump was sentenced on Friday after being found guilty on 34 charges related to falsifying business records in May.<\/p>\n

The incoming president was sentenced<\/a> to unconditional discharge, which means that he will not receive any jail time, fine or probation time. The sentence also preserves Trump’s ability to appeal the conviction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Trump was found guilty in criminal court in May, Democratic members of Congress put out a flurry of reactions on social media but appeared mum after the sentencing on Friday, which comes just days before he will be sworn into office on Jan. 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP SAYS HE RESPECTS SUPREME COURT’S DECISION TO DENY HIS REQUEST TO STOP SENTENCING, VOWS TO APPEAL<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in May, wrote in a post on X, fomerly Twitter, that “the jury has spoken and carefully rendered a decision. Responsible leadership requires the verdict to be respected,” while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said that “nobody is above the law.”<\/p>\n

However, Democrats appeared less reactive to Friday’s sentencing, which left Trump free of any penalty.<\/p>\n

One Democratic congresswoman put out a statement following the unconditional discharge sentence, claiming that “our system of justice is not just.”<\/p>\n

“There is a two-tiered system of justice in this country, and Donald Trump lives on the tier where he gets to walk into the White House without spending a single day in jail or being put on probation after being convicted of 34 felonies. On the other tier are the clients I represented as a public defender in Texas, like the seventeen-year-old boy who was held on felony probation for taking some candy from his school’s concession stand,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said in a post on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

REPUBLICANS BLAST \u2018JOKE\u2019 SENTENCING OF TRUMP 10 DAYS BEFORE SWEARING IN<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The scales are not equal,” she added.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, Republicans were very vocal following the sentencing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I have no respect for the process being used in New York. I find the judge and prosecutor\u2019s motives to be dripping with politics,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement. “This is a sad day for America.”<\/p>\n

Trump, ahead of the sentencing, said that he would appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

Trump filed an emergency petition<\/a> to the Supreme Court on Wednesday in an effort to prevent his Jan. 10 sentencing, but the high court ultimately denied his emergency petition to block his sentencing.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic lawmakers were noticeably silent following the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump despite previously commenting on the cases against him, as Washington prepares for a Republican trifecta in Congress. Trump was sentenced on Friday after being found guilty on 34 charges related to falsifying business records in May. The incoming president was sentenced to unconditional … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}