Reactions to Trump Jury Verdict
And let the days of Jubilation begin.
He’s guilty: Donald Trump is a convicted felon 34 times over
Editor,
Let the Church bells ring and people dance in the streets singing…that POS is a felon…that POS is felon….Ha ha ha… 🙂
Our legal system still works.
Richard Pawlowski
Oregon
No Is Above The Law
Today, our justice system worked as intended: a jury of 12 citizens of New York reviewed the evidence before them, applied the law as instructed, and came to a unanimous verdict. This is a process that has played out millions of times since the founding of our country
House Republicans have shown again and again they will ignore the American people’s business to stand with former president and now convicted felon — Donald Trump. While a former president’s conviction is nothing to celebrate, it is an affirmation that in the United States, no one is above the law.
Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-44)
On Trial
It’s Interesting. Donald Trump wanted the Central Park Five to be executed based on guilty verdicts by a jury.
Now the U.S. Justice System is incredibly unjust and one of its many victims is Trump.
This sounds like a chapter from a critical race theory textbook.
The intersectionality of “Law and Order” and “Crush a cop with a door.”
Michael Madrid
San Pedro
The Old Man Over the Felon
Former president Trump, you had four years to lead the United States and
failed us by your own choosing. Whether it be in foreign policy or
domestic policy, you did not protected the United States as commander in
chief.
We the American people have finally borne witness to what happens when they
place an incompetent business leader into the Oval Office. Especially one
who had everything handed to them.
Quality of life is not a business decision, sir. But rather, it is a humane
choice to be empathetic to those who cannot help themselves. This is why
government exists.
Now comes the jury’s decision making you a convicted felon. Have you no
shame and decency sir? As was said about former president Richard Nixon,
jail to the chief.
All you do is complain and moan about what others have done to you. However
by all accounts you put yourself in precarious situations and are now facing
the consequences.
MAGA has become a dog whistle for NAZI. Your followers would have made
great “Brown Shirts” in Hitler’s Germany. They demonstrated their loyalty
to you on January 6, 2021. An event you instigated.
Many now prefer the “old man” over the felon.
Joe Bialek
Cleveland, Ohio
University Unions United for Free Speech and Protest
As unions representing tens of thousands of workers at university campuses across the country, we strongly condemn the use of violent force and disciplinary actions by university administrations against students and workers peacefully protesting to demand their university administrations divest from the Israeli military and from companies profiting from the genocide in Gaza.
As unionized workers, we understand that the freedom to assemble and protest are foundational to democracy and to our ability as workers to collectively fight for meaningful changes in our workplaces and the world. We recognize the disciplinary actions and mobilization of police forces against peaceful protestors as attempts by university administrations to curtail the freedom of speech and protest on campuses.
We stand in solidarity with all of the students, graduate workers, faculty, and staff exercising their rights to free speech and protest. We call on all university administrations to live up to their values of academic freedom and to guarantee the right to freedom of speech, assembly, and protest on campuses.
Signed:
UE Local 256 MIT Graduate Student Union
GOLD-UE Local 261
Teachers and Researchers United UE Local 197
UGW UNM UE Local 1466
NUGW-UE Local 1122 Interim Grievance Committee
UE Local 896 COGS
CGSU-UE Local 300 Bargaining Committee
University of Minnesota Graduate Labor Union (GLU) UE Local 1105
NMSU Graduate Workers United UE Local 1498
UE Local 1103 Graduate Students United
UAW Local 4811
GEO at UIUC IFT/AFT #3600
GSWOC-UAW Local 872
Northwestern University Library Workers Union (SEIU Local 73)
University of Chicago Faculty Forward Union (Affiliate of SEIU Local 73)
UNITE HERE Local 26
Temple University Graduate Students' Association – TUGSA/AFT Local 6290
Emerson Union for Resident Assistants (OPEIU Local 153)
BUGWU SEIU 509 Rank-and-File Caucus
University of Oregon Student Workers Union
SWC-UAW 2710
Brown Graduate Labor Organization, AFT/RIFT Local 6516
Rutgers AAUP-AFT
SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa
UMass Lowell Graduate Employee Organization (UAW Local 1596)
Graduate Employees of Northeastern University UAW
Duke Graduate Students Union (SEIU Workers United Southern Region Local 27)
UE Local 150, North Carolina Public Service Workers Union
United Campus Workers of Tennessee, Local 3865