"Convicted felon" is a pretty strong message to the low information voter, apparently their target market.
To the more sophisticated voter they might notice with the Democrats that their inner-Putin is showing.
Assuming this partisan judge won't order prison time for bookkeeping errors, Trump will be put under house arrest in Mar-A-Lago, unable to campaign and do rallies in the month of the first debate, exactly as planned and timed. If that is the case, he would not even be able to attend the first debate. Or do they give him a work release to go out and visit the voters across the country, making the sentence meaningless and the charges a joke.
In any event, all the attention goes to the judge. This is what he wanted. But HE (the judge) happens to be reason number one for overturn on appeal.
Of course the media is seeking out potential, violent reactions of a rogue Trump supporter or two to capture the moment and prove the extremism, when the extremism just happened under our new nose in a New York courtroom.
