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The ultimate penalty for Trump from Judge Merchan reflects the lack of seriousness in the NY case. It was more inflated than the Goodyear blimp, pumped up by hot rage and rhetoric.

Donald Trump, the first convicted felon to be elected president, was sentenced today in his New York hush-money case, pleasing virtually no one.Justice Juan Merchan sentenced the president-elect to an unconditional discharge, meaning Trump will face no penalties other than the stigma of a conviction. Trump was furious that he was sentenced at all, and had mounted a campaign in the courts of law and public opinion to stop it. His critics won’t be happy with the sentence itself, which is less than a slap on the wrist.This mutual unhappiness was perhaps the only point of agreement at the hearing in Manhattan. “This defendant has caused enduring damage to public perception of the criminal-justice system and has placed officers of the court in harm’s way,” the prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said. Trump, meanwhile, said the case had “been a tremendous setback” for the New York courts. “This has been a very terrible experience,” he said.[Read: Trump’s New York sentencing must proceed]The fact that someone could commit the crimes that Trump has and still win a presidential election remains galling, but the difficulty of getting to this moment, and the ways the other criminal cases against him stalled out, shows how significant the sentencing is, even considering its leniency. Trump’s criminal trials have demonstrated that there is not equal justice for all, but there is some justice. Bringing this case to sentencing was part of that.The hearing itself held little drama. Trump didn’t come back to his hometown for it, opting to appear via video from Mar-a-Lago. Merchan had indicated in a filing last week that he would opt for an unconditional discharge, and prosecutors didn’t oppose that decision. Neither party may have had much choice. The idea that Trump was ever going to spend time in prison was always a dream. Trump continues to insist that he did nothing wrong, and on Truth Social claimed, incorrectly, that the discharge “proves that … THERE IS NO CASE.”Trump fought hard to avoid even so light a sentence. After he was convicted in May 2024 on 34 felony counts relating to paying the porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep a sexual encounter secret, sentencing was scheduled for July 2024, but that was delayed until after the election. After winning, Trump tried unsuccessfully to get Merchan to throw out the conviction. His lawyers then asked an appeals court to block the sentencing, but were rejected. They also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to do so, but the justices narrowly rejected that. (Four conservatives—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh—would have granted the request.) He can still appeal his conviction, and has vowed to do so.[Read: The cases against Trump: A guide]The resources Trump marshaled to fight against the sentencing hint at why this was the only case to go to trial as well as the only one to end in a conviction. The Justice Department brought federal charges against Trump related to subverting the 2020 election and hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Trump managed to get the former case before the Supreme Court, which granted astonishing immunity to a president; though the DOJ moved forward even under the new rules, Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped the charges once Trump won the election, a nod both to DOJ rules that bar prosecuting a sitting president and to Trump’s vow to kill the case. The documents case was effectively sabotaged by a Trump-appointed federal judge. Another case, in state court in Georgia, is in limbo after the district attorney was removed by judges, but would have been unlikely to proceed while Trump is in office anyway.The New York sentencing doesn’t solve the fact that Trump managed to get off scot-free for two serious offenses: an attempt to steal an election, carried out mostly in plain sight, and refusing to turn over documents that no one disputes he refused to turn over. (Trump merely contends he had a right to keep them.) The sentence is, however, a rebuke to Trump’s claim that his political wins ought to erase any accountability for his actions. He invoked his electoral victories again during today’s hearings while criticizing his prosecution. This is, or should be, irrelevant.[Bob Bauer: Trump is poised to turn the DOJ into his personal law firm]“No doubt all public-official defendants would like to be able to say that winning their next election means everyone should just forget about their alleged crimes,” Randall D. Eliason wrote in The Atlantic in November. “That’s not how our system works. An election is not a jury verdict, and winning an election doesn’t make you any less guilty.”Merchan was at pains today to make clear that Trump is granted certain immunities and privileges through the office of the president and that they do not attach to his person. This distinction is likely lost on Trump, and may be difficult for many other Americans to have faith in. In one sign of how tightly intertwined these things have become, the defense lawyers representing Trump today are poised to take top positions in the Justice Department once Trump is inaugurated.Trump has indicated he will work hard to continue to erase the distinction once in office. The important thing about today’s proceeding, however, was not whether it ended with a bang or a whimper but that it concluded at all.

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A few lucky Malibu homes are miraculously still standing after they somehow escaped the Palisades Fire as nearly all the neighboring houses were reduced to ash. Among the charred remains of luxurious million-dollar mansions along the iconic Pacific Coast Highway, only a select few buildings survived after the inferno tore through the exclusive city —...

In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder. A gutter full of dry leaves is a cradle for an inferno. Think of a rosebush against a bedroom window: fire food. The roses burn first, melting the vinyl seal around the window. The glass pane falls. A shoal of embers enter the house like a school of glowing fish. Then the house is lost.As the Palisades Fire, just 8 percent contained this morning, and the Eaton Fire, still uncontained, devour Los Angeles neighborhoods, one thing is clear: Urban fire in the U.S. is coming back. For generations, American cities would burn in era-defining conflagrations: the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, the San Francisco fires of 1906. Then came fire-prevention building codes, which made large city burns a memory of a more naive time. Generations of western firefighters turned, instead, toward wildland burns, the big forest devastations. An urban conflagration was the worst-case scenario, the one they hoped they’d never see. And for a long time, they mostly didn’t.Now more people live at the flammable edges of wildlands, making places that are primed to burn into de facto suburbs. That, combined with the water whiplash that climate change has visited on parts of California—extraordinarily wet years followed by extraordinarily dry ones—means the region is at risk for urban fire once again. And our ability to fight the most extreme fire conditions has reached its limit. The Palisades Fire alone has already destroyed more than 5,300 structures and the Eaton Fire more than 4,000, making both among the most destructive fires in California’s history. When the worst factors align, the fires are beyond what firefighting can meaningfully battle. With climate change, this type of fire will only grow more frequent.The start of the Palisades and Eaton Fires was a case of terrible timing: A drought had turned abundant vegetation into crisp fire fuel, and the winter rains were absent. A strong bout of Santa Ana winds made what was already probable fire weather into all but a guarantee. Something—it remains to be seen what—ignited these blazes, and once they started, there was nothing anyone could do to stop them. The winds, speeding up to 100 miles an hour at times, sent showers of embers far across the landscape to ignite spot fires. The high winds meant that traditional firefighting was, at least in the beginning, all but impossible, David Acuna, a battalion chief for Cal Fire, told me: He saw videos of firefighters pointing their hoses toward flames, and the wind blowing the water in the other direction. And for a while, fire planes couldn’t fly. Even if they had, it wouldn’t have mattered, Acuna said. The fire retardant or water they would have dropped would have blown away, like the hose water. “It’s just physics,” he said.California, and Southern California in particular, has some of the most well-equipped firefighting forces in the world, which have had to think more about fire than perhaps any other in the United States. On his YouTube livestream discussing the fires, the climate scientist Daniel Swain compared the combined fleet of vehicles, aircraft, and personnel to the army of a small nation. If these firefighters couldn’t quickly get this fire contained, likely no one could. This week’s series of fires is testing the upper limits of the profession’s capacity to fight wind-driven fires under dry conditions, Swain said, and rather than call these firefighters incompetent, it’s better to wonder how “all of this has unfolded despite that.” The reality is that in conditions like these, once a few houses caught fire in the Pacific Palisades, even the best firefighting could likely do little to keep the blaze from spreading, Michael Wara, a former member of California’s wildfire commission who now directs a climate-and-energy-policy program at Stanford, told me. “Firefighting is not going to be effective in the context we saw a few days ago,” when winds were highest, he said. “You could put a fire truck in every driveway and it would not matter.” He recounted that he was once offered a job at UCLA, but when the university took him to look at potential places to live in the Pacific Palisades, he immediately saw hazards. “It had terrible evacuation routes, but also the street layout was aligned with the Santa Ana winds so that the houses would burn down like dominoes,” he said. “The houses themselves were built very, very close together, so that the radiant heat from one house would ignite the house next door.”In California, the shift toward ungovernable fires in populated places has been under way for several years. For the former Cal Fire chief deputy director Christopher Anthony, who retired in 2023, the turning point was 2017, when wildfires in populated places in Northern California’s wine country killed 44 people and burned nearly a quarter million acres. The firefighting profession, he told me, started to recognize then that fortifying communities before these more ferocious blazes start would be the only meaningful way to change their outcome. The Camp Fire, which decimated the town of Paradise in 2018, “was the moment that we realized that this wasn’t, you know, an anomaly,” he said. The new fire regime was here. This new kind of fire, once begun, would “very quickly overwhelm the operational capabilities of all of the fire agencies to be able to effectively respond,” he said.As Wara put it, in fires like these, houses survive, or don’t, on their own. Sealed against ember incursion with screened vents, built using fire-resistant materials, separated from anything flammable—fencing, firewood, but especially vegetation—by at least five feet, a house has a chance. In 2020, California passed a law (yet to be enforced) requiring such borders around houses where fire hazard is highest. It’s a hard sell, having five feet of stone and concrete lining the perimeter of one’s house, instead of California’s many floral delights. Making that the norm would require a serious social shift. But it could meaningfully cut losses, Kate Dargan, a former California state fire marshal, told me.Still, eliminating the risk of this type of wind-driven fire is now impossible. Dargan started out in wildland firefighting in the 1970s, but now she and other firefighters see the work they did, of putting out all possible blazes, as “somewhat misguided.” Fire is a natural and necessary part of California’s ecosystem, and suppressing it entirely only stokes bigger blazes later. She wants to see the state further embrace preventative fires, to restore it to its natural cycles. But the fires in Southern California this week are a different story, unlikely to have been prevented by prescribed burns alone. When the humidity drops low and the land is in the middle of a drought and the winds are blowing at 100 miles an hour, “we’re not going to prevent losses completely,” Dargan said. “And with climate change, those conditions are likely to occur more frequently.” Avoiding all loss would mean leaving L.A. altogether.Rebuilding means choosing a different kind of future. Dargan hopes that the Pacific Palisades rebuilds with fire safety in mind; if it does, it will have a better chance of not going through this kind of experience again. Some may still want to grow a rosebush outside their window. After this is over, the bargaining with nature will begin. “Every community gets to pick how safe they want to be,” Dargan said.

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