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J.D. Vance, Not That One, Gets 2 Years in Prison for Threatening the Vice President
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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it is my personal opinion that the relevant law should be abolished, but since 1917 it’s been a felony to threaten bodily harm or kidnapping of those within the presidential line of succession, which does not include the mayor of new york city unless he decides to run for the presidential ticket or marry and become trump’s immediate family.
*trump was on the verge of being sentenced for threatening to hang mike pence until he won the election.
I don't remember them even bringing charges against him for that, much sentence him.
You're right. There was a case with Special Counsel Jack Smith on his Jan. 6 actions but the charges did not including threatening the VP.
Are we sure it wasn't one of the 34x he was convicted?
Yes, we're sure. Those 34 convictions were all for identical charges of "falsifying business records in the first degree," related to secret payments made to Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn't tell anyone about having a sexual affair with him.