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Donald Trump will be the first former president to face a criminal trial, judge rules
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I think it's way more likely that he gets sentenced to house arrest, which he could serve at Mar a Lago. The other option is to have Secret Service agents following him around inside a prison trying to protect him from the other inmates (and possibly the guards), and I don't think either the prisons or the Secret Service want to deal with that.
Actually they could throw him in a maximum security prison and condem him to solitary confinement (for his own protection you know) and that would negate the need for the Secret Service
The Secret Service would still need to be around to protect him from the guards & the ghost of Epstein.
Maybe a disgraced ex president shouldn't receive an honor guard?
He already sold those to Russia and the Saudis, the damage is done.
I mean he already sold it all. What difference does it make.
There are prisons and cells designed for people like that. Robert Hanssen's cell at ADX Florence is probably still open.
That's what one of the other trials is about.
ADX Florence sitting in the corner patiently.
"Yeah, he's a convicted felon, but we can't put him in jail because that would inconvenience the Secret Service."
Nope. Sorry it's a burden for them, but they can figure it out. Make a prison out of the brig on an abandoned military base in the middle of nowhere with him as the only prisoner. It worked for Rudolph Hess.
It's really not even that big of a burden. They already have wings for people like former cops and child molesters, so he'll fit in nicely. They'll just need a chair for the SS detail.
Prison is for poor people, not presidents. I think most people understand that not everyone is equal under the law at this point in time.
Ulysses S. Grant set the precedent that a sitting president can be prosecuted in 1872 while he was president, and got pulled over, for the third time, for "speeding on a horse inside the city limits of Washington DC." He told the officer that attempted to let him go, that Congress had literally passed article 1983 the previous year, and that even The POTUS doesn't have immunity. Sure it was a speeding ticket, but that's still precedent, with a statute to back it up.
The statute in question needs to be reviewed by The SCOTUS, as they were provided incorrectly edited wording of that statute, ommiting 16 crucial words of the law, in the case of Harlow vs. Fitzgerald in 1982, and illegally set up the Qualified Immunity Doctrine.
Fuck that, execute the fucker then
I thought he had to forfeit Mar A Lago because he falsely claimed it to be a primary residence which it isn't
Not forfeited but he's convicted of fraud for the false valuation, and the sum is high enough he may be forced to sell it to cover the judgement
Thank you for clarifying 😊