Lock Him Up: Trump Is Now a Convicted Felon

Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 criminal charges. The unanimous verdict by the New York jury marks the first time in American history that a former U.S. president has been found guilty of a crime.  Despite Trump’s claim that Black people will relate to his legal troubles, we remember how Trump failed to relate to the Black and brown teenagers in the Central Park Five case that he tried to execute and never apologized after they were exonerated. RELATED: Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Ops in the Bronx The conviction should give Republicans a convenient off-ramp to find a new nominee, but they’re too far down the rabbit hole to use common sense. The Constitution does not prohibit a “convicted felon” from running for president, so the verdict will not end Trump’s presidential campaign. But let this mark the end of the foolish conversation that Trump and Biden are the same. They are not. No matter what President Biden’s weaknesses, there is no other person in American history — past or present — as dangerous to democracy as Donald Trump. It was not the Biden campaign or the White House that convicted Trump. It was the unanimous verdict of...