Biggest Numbers

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So there I was, sitting in a bar in the Atlanta Airport when breaking news hit that the jury in the Trump trial had a verdict after a little more than nine hours of deliberations. I wasn’t in the bar long as I had to catch a flight, and I had just finished my cartoon for Friday, but the ruling was announced before I left. The jury found Trump guilty.

I was writing ideas while boarding my flight to Huntsville and kept writing them on my phone while I was in the air. I was on Delta which provides WiFi. I started drawing ideas as soon as I got into my hotel room and after making sure there weren’t any dead bodies or spiders under the beds. I ultimately drew 11 ideas and six more the next day. You’ll see them all in a few days. This cartoon is one of the ideas drawn on Friday.

I had been telling people not to get their hopes up about Trump receiving a guilty verdict. Even in a trial where the prosecution looked like the Harlem Globetrotters to the defense’s Washington Generals, this was one time I thought the Generals might win.

I was concerned that even with a team of expert lawyers for the prosecution, convincing the jury that Trump committed a felony was a steep hill to climb. Could they make the jury understand the charges and what laws Trump broke? I dreaded the impending howls and cheers from MAGA World. But I was wrong. I was very wrong and now we get to hear the howls from MAGA World.

I wasn’t just wrong in that the prosecution succeeded in convincing the jury and that the jury understood the charges. I was wrong on the number of counts that the jury ruled Trump was guilty. Trump faced 34 counts and that’s how many guilty counts the jury gave him.

Now, I’m going to tell you not to get your hopes up on the sentencing…just in hopes I’ll be wrong again.

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