I was thinking about this and I think I’d be happier with lots and lots of hours of community service. Jail’s too good for him. I want to see him in an orange jumpsuit picking up trash by the side of the highway. (This presumes that he doesn’t actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue.)
Other countries have sent former leaders to prison. List here and it’s not a short list:
List of heads of government who were later imprisoned - Wikipedia
John Edwards (who was the democratic VP candidate in 2004) was facing 30 years in prison for using campaign funds to pay off a mistress.
Thats just one of the many crimes Trump is accused of (he used campaign funds to pay off porn stars he slept with, his attorney Michael Cohen is currently in prison for doing this with him).
He deserves much worse than community service.
I would be happy just to see him do a perp walk in handcuffs. That’s not likely though, he would probably turn himself in with a lawyer and post bond and go home.
What I wrote yesterday in the GQ thread about politicians going to jail seems to fit in this thread too:
That was Post #7 there. Several other posters posted responses, if you’re interested.
The Secret Service protection alone would be a nightmare to coordinate. He’d still be eligible for the bodyguards, right?
No chance he goes to anything more than a federal country club, and that’s a stretch. Home incarceration.
All that said, however, I’ve seen it predicted that Trump will, at the very least, spend the rest of his natural life fighting legal battles.
Apparently, though, he thoroughly enjoys doing just that.
It’s the old “wrestling with a pig” scenario.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
- GB Shaw
If he wasn’t rich and connected, he’d spend the rest of his life in prison. As it is, though, his lawyers will run out the clock. He’ll die before having to pay any consequences- he is *not *a healthy man.