In the greater scheme of things, a New York State jury’s criminal conviction of the Trump Organization is small potatoes. Mainly, though, that is because there is such a daunting array of other legal problems on former president Donald Trump’s horizon, near and short term.
The immediate pain of Tuesday’s 17 convictions in Manhattan will be trivial. At most, the business is looking at about $1.6 million in fines. The convictions are corporate, not personal. They will result in no criminal record for any member of the Trump family. No human will be going to jail except Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer who previously pled guilty — and the fact that he’s looking at only about three months of incarceration is a measure of how minor the charges are.
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