Smerconish Takes A Shot At Liberals Over Trump's Bail Bond

CNN's Michael Smerconish evidently doesn't understand understand the issue of cash bail reform, because he used the fact that Trump was required to post $200,000 bail in Georgia to take a shot at liberals this Saturday.

SMERCONISH: Can Donald Trump campaign within the parameters of his release? Consider this. Trump was booked on Thursday in Fulton County Georgia, his fingerprints and mug shot both recorded.

His subsequent release was determined by a consent bond order, which was filed with the court three days prior. The order was agreed to by the judge, Scott McAfee, the District Attorney Fani Willis, and three Trump lawyers.

It enables Trump's release upon posting ten percent of the $200,000 bond... by the way kind of interesting that ending cash bail has become a rallying cry for progressives, but not in this case.

Advocates for cash bail reform don't care about what happens to Trump because the problem with cash bail is that it benefits people like Trump and harms poor people who are forced to rot in jail even if they're not a threat to the community because they can't afford to post bond. Here's more on that from the ACLU:

On any given day in 2020, roughly 630,000 people were locked up in local jails. The majority of them had not been convicted of a crime.

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