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t of the day that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

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Ah, delightful. I feel connected to you all through the invisible umbilical cord of the coffee cup.

Give me an update in the comments if something happens while I'm talking, because I think Trump is supposedly going to be talking to Judge Merchan today. So there will be sentencing. He's doing it over Zoom, right? He's not going in person. I don't know. I'm not sure yet, but I think he's not going in person. And Judge Merchan has already indicated he's going to do some kind of unconditional discharge, meaning that he'll be guilty of a felony but won't go to jail. And no matter what the sentence is, they plan to appeal. So Trump will be officially a felon maybe, but then it's on appeal.

So my question to you, dear legal experts, is if your case is approved for appeal, are you still a felon? Because it's not guaranteed you're a felon if your appeal is going through, right? So I feel like you'd say it's you're conditionally possibly a felon, just like before. So if the legal process has not come to an end, it seems to me that the legal process is still cooking along. Why would you say he's a felon? I don't understand what you're saying. So the process is still going forward. It could end with him being a felon or not a felon. So why are you saying he's a felon? He should be innocent until the appeals process is over. Now they don't say that, but I do, right?

It'd be one thing if you said I'm going to appeal, but given that we could be reasonably confident the appeal will be accepted at least to be processed, how is that guilty? How

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does that make him a felon? In what world? In what world would I consider him a felon if he's in a legal process and it's likely, and here's what makes it interesting. I think the experts say the case was so flawed that it's far more likely it will be overturned than upheld. Isn't that true? So if so, can you be called a felon if the process is still going and all the smart people think it will en…

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