The Middle of a Sentence

What's the difference between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump?  Hitler went to prison.

Judge Juan Merchan is scheduled tomorrow to sentence Donald Trump in the so-called "hush money" case in which Trump was found guilty on 34 counts.  Trump is trying to get the MAGA-friendly Supreme Court to delay the sentencing indefinitely.  As I type this, I do not know how that worked out, though a New York appeals court has already denied his request.  But if the sentencing goes through as planned, I know what Trump will not get - prison time.  He'll either get a suspended jail sentence or a fine that would seem enormous to the average person but would be pocket change to Trump.  It won't even be a slap on the wrist - it will be a tap on the wrist.

Of course, the voters sentenced Trump to four years of hard labor by electing him to another presidential term, but he'll just let his chief of staff Susie Wiles do the work for him while he luxuriates in the White House and Mar-a-Lago.  She's probably the only thing that stands between Trump and an invasion of Canada and Greenland. 

Even if Trump leaves office in January 2029 (note that I said "if") and the other three indictments against him should somehow be revived, Trump still won't do prison time, because he'll likely get clemency for his age.  Trump won't serve any time in jail.

His opponents will.  Well, the lucky ones, anyway.  

Merchan will roar like a tiger when he sentences Trump, but his sentence will be like the bite of a kitten.  But incoming FBI director Kash Patel, looking to prosecute anti-Trump politicians and media figures, not only has the roar of a tiger but the appetite of one. And he's ready to bear his claws.