Donald Trump was supposed to be sentenced for his crimes today
Trump was supposed to face sentencing today in New York. A month ago, he was convicted by a jury of his peers of falsifying business records to hide information from voters ahead of the 2016 election. And today was the day he was going to learn his fate.
Of course, that’s not happening today, because his handpicked justices on the Supreme Court engaged in their own bit of election interference — retroactively handing him king-like powers and delaying the many cases against him for months, if not longer.
So the Manhattan court won’t decide Trump’s fate today. Instead, we will decide it at the ballot box in 117 days.
The work ahead of us is daunting. But today, Trump’s original sentencing day, it’s worth reminding ourselves — particularly given the round-the-clock media focus on Biden right now — that the Republican nominee for president is a man who was convicted of 34 felonies and remains charged with dozens more.
Our opponent is a man who was found liable for sexual abuse. A man who sent a violent mob to stop the peaceful transfer of power and has threatened another “bloodbath” if he loses. The GOP is running a wannabe autocrat who has publicly expressed support for the most extreme abortion bans in the country, who promises to cut taxes for his wealthiest donors while raising prices for the rest of us, plans to deport millions of our neighbors, weaponize the Department of Justice against his political opponents, and whose allies have been tasked with plotting a Christian Nationalist takeover of our government — Project 2025.
For all the ups and downs of the past few weeks, let’s remember today that Donald Trump is a massively flawed and weak candidate, with massively flawed and unpopular policies. Donald Trump is beatable. We’ve done it before. And together, we’ll do it again.
The courts won’t save our country from another four years of Trump, but we can. Chip in to fuel the grassroots organizing that’ll lead us to victory over MAGA this November.
Ultimately, it’s up to us to go out and remind voters what a second Trump term will mean for our country. Indivisibles are already knocking on doors, writing postcards, and joining phonebanks. With our revolutionary Neighbor2Neighbor program, we’re bypassing the media and reaching voters with trusted messengers (their neighbors).
We know that the same MAGA justices who helped Trump evade accountability today are teeing him up to be a dictator on Day 1. They’re chipping away at the checks and balances that could stop Trump from single-handedly implementing his agenda of hate and vengeance. This is what we’re up against in this election. But when we lay out the stakes to voters, we’re not just talking about the negative stakes of Trump getting back in the White House — we’re also discussing the better future that’s possible if we win.
With a true Democratic trifecta, we can restore reproductive rights nationwide. We can pass democracy reform and voting rights legislation so that the rules of our political system are no longer rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. We can work for affordable housing and health care. We can pass binding ethics rules for the Supreme Court and enact other reforms to root out its corruption and restore its integrity.
We know these policies are popular with voters and when we line them up against what the GOP is offering — a convicted, would-be dictator who’d roll back our most fundamental personal rights — the choice in this election becomes clear. But it’s up to us to make this case to voters and we can’t do that without your help. So if you want to support the grassroots organizing — the phonebanks, texting, postcards, and one-on-one conversations — that will help us win in November, please click here to pitch in.
When we defeat Trump in November, we’ll be saving an imperfect and damaged democracy — but we’ll also win the chance to build a better one.
