Subject: Re: Why didn't judge Merchan impose a fine?
Yup. Exactly right.
Only the most hard core of left wing AI chatbots believes this case has any legal merit and Merchan knows that.

I suspect that him imposing no penalty has 2 reasons - 1, the more harm Trump can show during his appeal the faster this gets overturned and 2, he doesn’t want to set a precedent for this kind of bullsh1t prosecution (lest some democrat suffers the same fate).

The damage the left does to our institutions on a daily basis requires a reckoning; these people need to pay.