As usual, Trump is lying about being prevented from attending the graduation:
Merchan has not prevented Trump from attending his son’s graduation. In fact, when asked if Trump could be excused from court on Friday to attend the event, the judge stated that it was too early to rule on the matter but that if the trial proceeded as planned, he would be open to excusing the defendant.<
Whole thing is a scam. Not because of Trump, but because the legal system is a scam in the US. He's sitting trial for things that happened in the run up to the 2016 election. 8 years of zero consequences.
Assuming he loses, he will appeal. Assuming he loses, he will appeal. Everyone knows that if there was ever an appeal case for supreme court consideration, something involving a former president is a pretty good case. That's going to be 3 years to a court he's stacked.
If he's still alive in 2028 he'll still be free, 12 years of no consequence other than sitting in a chair sometimes. And that's it.
Let him appeal if he's convicted. If he is initially sentenced to prison, he's not allowed to post bail and will continue to serve. Hopefully it would take a while to get up to SCOTUS, and he can enjoy wearing orange to match the rest of him for at least that long.
And he griped about the prospect of missing Barron’s graduation.
“I was looking forward to that graduation, with his mother and father there, and it looks like the judge does not allow me to escape this scam,” he said
Think of this in context. It originally ready barron was looking forward to having his mo there and father there. But trump couldn't stand seeing the sentence being about Barron so they changed it to I
To me he did a perfect balance all the way up until the end. He didn't put up with a ton of nonsense or willing to waste a ton of time on it, but he wasn't like disallowing anything the guy wanted to say and he was still responding directly to everything, and being very direct about what was a problem and why.
That said, I am not any kind of judgeologist but I feel like 30 days at the end was way too extreme an escalation. That can be life changing. Give him 3 days if you want and my guess is that then he will realize that it's not just a game when he next shows up in court, and then everything can move forward. Maybe not, but that is my feeling.
In all four cases, he was allowed to remain free pending trial, as long as he abided by certain conditions of release (conditions that he has, at times, flouted with few consequences).
Shouldn't be surprising the he is upset about possibly needung to follow a judge's orders after getting free reign on everything prior. Hope this judge actually follows though, but not holding my breath.