Understand, the purpose of this trial is to get a conviction, period. They don’t care if it gets thrown out on appeal, all they want is the to be able to drone on day after day in the press that he is a convicted felon, that’s it.
They don’t care if it will be thrown out on appeal, just get a conviction so they can broadcast that day and night for weeks or months... that’s it.
If he is convicted and it is later thrown out, does that mean that he is no longer considered a “convicted felon?”
If the answer to that question is “yes,” then if the media thereafter continues to broadcast that he is a convicted felon, would that not then open them up to libel, slander, and/or defamation to a Trump-friendly court?