Democrats, progressives cheering Trump verdict should be mourning this loss instead

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump will have strong grounds to appeal.
47% : A Manhattan jury rendered its verdict on Donald Trump last week.
47% : TRUMP OR MAKE HIM EVEN STRONGER?Avoiding the temptation of criminalizing political differences is not just important to protect a stable electoral system, but to ensure an optimal president.
36% : A DEMOCRAT PARTY THAT WILL DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO WINYears could pass before Trump can take his appeals through the state appeals court system to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he would win solely on this last issue.
32% : The jury must have agreed with Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer at the time, that Trump improperly filed these payments as "legal expenses" rather than as a contribution to his own presidential campaign.
25% : But in investigating Trump first and coming up with the crimes second, Bragg and his colleagues in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., have violated the rule of law.
22% : It found that in 2016, Trump had paid porn star Stephanie Clifford (stage name, Stormy Daniels) $170,000 to keep silent about an alleged affair.
19% : And the jury must have concluded that this bookkeeping error was secretly an attempt to enable some greater crime, such as violating federal campaign or tax law - even though federal authorities had not brought charges against Trump for the non-disclosure agreement payoff to Clifford.
1% : Not only did Gerald Ford pardon Richard Nixon over Watergate, or George W. Bush leave Bill Clinton in peace despite the latter's obvious perjury, but Donald Trump did not pursue Hillary Clinton for her routing of classified emails to her unsecured home computer network.

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