"After a day of holding its fire, the Biden campaign late Friday blasted Donald Trump as a ‘convicted felon’ — an indication the president’s team has decided to seize upon Trump’s conviction to question his fitness for the White House,” Axios reports.
“The broadside from Biden’s campaign — in a press release chiding Trump for his ‘unhinged’ rant earlier in the day — put President Biden in the same camp as many Democrats who are now mocking the ex-president.”
“It also marked a departure from Biden’s approach in remarks at the White House hours earlier, when he danced around the ‘convicted felon’ label while criticizing Trump’s attack on the U.S. justice system.”
This feels like the argument after his impeachment when people said he hadn’t been impeached until Nancy delivered the paperwork to the Senate.
It feels like it because you don’t understand context.
Someone is a convicted felon when they are convicted of a felony. They aren’t a convict until they start serving their sentence because convict means a convicted felon serving their sentence. Like how someone who is a licensed driver isn’t referred to as a driver outside of the context of driving.
I love how your example proves the exact opposite of what you’re trying to say. Especially when your first sentence is so condescending.
He is a convicted felon but not yet a convict.
You’re a licensed driver even when you’re not actively driving a car.
No one in this thread is saying convict. Everyone is saying convicted felon.
I may have read your post backwards.
Rapidcreek, the op in this comment chain, was trying to use the use of referring to someone as a convict (someone who is currently serving their sentence) to say Trump isn’t a convicted felon until sentencing.