Trump will never see a day of jail time.

[912gdm]

Hear me out, and let's be practical. Any dreams of him in an orange jumpsuit are just fantasy. Even though he is a complete idiot and has no intention of learning anything, he is a huge security asset. No gen-pop, not even Club Fed. The only thing I can think of that might come closest to a presidents fate <former> would be the nicely furnished aquarium that held Noriega .

And even then, it would have to be guarded and policed by Secret Service because of classification issues. So he will end up a pariah sulking in his tower with no real consequences that you or I might have to deal with.

At the least, if found guilty his spawn will get VIP club fed treatment.

Im not trying to be Debbie downer, but because of his office, what he might have sponged up, and his 30% die hard rabid supporters, he will never face real justice.

[marylandblue]

1. State crimes through the Trump Foundation might be the ticket

Nothing they can do about that one.

[Jarqui]

12. NY AG really wants to nail him

She can also get him on many of the charges Manafort got nailed with at the state level
And they can hammer him financially so hard his business founded on a leveraged house of cards will probably come tumbling down.

He's pissed off the FBI. He's pissed off the CIA and intelligence community

He's got a whole bunch of people caught trying to lie about it.

This isn't a little burglary before a landslide victory.
This is consorting with the enemy to steal an election.
There is little redeeming here for him - it was all about self gain.

[bearsfootball516]

2. You're absolutely correct.

I’ll settle for the information being so damaging that it destroys any potential 2020 run, though.

[secondwind]

3. If he is left penniless, that is enough for me.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Sins of the father borne by the children.....

The name of Trump and everything connected to it, wil, be in ruins.

Eric, Jr., and Ivanka will be the ones to do the time.

[GopherGal]

19. Agreed.

The orange jumpsuit is a nice mental picture, but probably not gonna happen.

Out of office
Out of the public eye
Penniless

are a little closer to being within reach.

[grantcart]

40. Let him work for Saul Goodman at the Cinnabon franchise in North Dakota.

[dawg day]

4. I would be happy with him ruined and humiliated--

and fighting lawsuits the rest of his sorry life, and abandoned by his wife and children and afraid to leave Trump Tower because people will jeer at him.

[agingdem]

25. agreed

but I want the wife and spawn to be isolated and reviled with him in his gold plated world...no safe havens for the Trumps...I want them punchlines in every dirty joke ...I want them jeered at and spit on every time they dare to show their faces...I want Ivanka and Jared to be uninvited and non invited and abandoned...I want every piece of property with trump's name on it seized and bulldozed...and yes fighting lawsuits and subpoenas every day of their lives...and then I want them forgotten...just a terrible footnote in some out of date history book...

[Merlot]

5. Agreed. I personally was not looking for that. Just hoping everyone around him

is taken down, all crimes are exposed, and he'll be left standing alone. Oh, and all money (what little he has) goes to restitution. Then it's fine with me if he spends the rest of his life in his golden cage/trumpft tower.

Probably not a popular opinion, but I don't feel we should be putting presidents in jail. The people who voted for the president will never believe it is legitimate anyhow.

[Just a Weirdo]

16. That he has to pay a mandatory rent of $10,000/month to live in that shithole.

No redecoration allowed. Once the gild is gone, it's fucking gone, forever.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. treason is just another profitable enterprise now

[912gdm]

11. it is. 'poppy bush's daddy got away with it

and this week we are morning a man who helped an actor win an election by keeping hostages in Iran for a few extra weeks.

[dflprincess]

13. Prescott got away with it because FDR thought it best not to prosecute

those who plotted to overthrow him "for the good of the country".

Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes have gotten away with their crimes because prosecuting them would be too upsetting and not in be in the nation's best interests. All B.S. of course, just protecting the status quo and the powers that be. And that's how we ended up with Trump.

[912gdm]

21. Exactly.

An other reason why trump will walk.


Prescott and his family should have been salted and politely told to go away. but, money.

[dflprincess]

22. The only thing that might make Trump's situation different

is he doesn't come from "old money". He's an upstart who was never part of the club and may have actually endangered the old, rich, white guys hold on things -- all the while thinking he was one of them.

We can hope.

[Hoyt]

7. Agree. Best, or worst, that will happen is he leaves office. No state will ever find a jury that

will convict him. There will always be a white winger or two who hangs the jury. Now, his kids are at greater risk, but still.

I'll be find with him leaving in disgrace, having fines levied by states for tax evasion or whatever, never being able to get a loan again, civil suits, etc.

[a kennedy]

9. I WOULD BE EXTREMELY HAPPY TO NEVER SEE HIS DAMN MUG AGAIN

[edhopper]

10. I would prefer him

screaming in a bunker on how the country failed him.

[ecstatic]

14. He'll be punished for treason, in the traditional manner

that traitors are dealt with.

[brettdale]

15. what trump would hate the most though

Is (in his mind) his reputation.


Thats why those outtakes of the apprentice, the hooker tapes, the groping under age girls
at beauty pageant tapes need to come out.

[dflprincess]

24. He won't care about those things going public

but what would really humiliate him all the details of his finances come out. Having it come out that he's been (probably) living on credit and is in deep to the Russians & Saudis is all he would care about & having what few assets he may have seized.

[Xolodno]

17. I've reiterated a similar sentiment a number of times here.

The Government of the United States will never imprison a former President. The optics on a global stage would be a cost too high....and this guy has already cost us plenty.

He'll get pardoned on Federal Crimes and get slapped with fines by the State investigations. Some of his family will no doubt get slapped with federal fines, but those who spend prison time...they will be the Scooter Libby's and after a bit of time, get commuted.

[ecstatic]

23. hmm.....I never thought about that aspect... the optics on the global stage.

But I think everyone knows by now that trump is a traitorous clown and we're already the laughingstock of the world. If we don't make an example of him, it could happen again!

[dflprincess]

18. Prairie Correctional Facility, in Appleton, MN

Minnesota's only for-profit prison has been empty since 2010.

Maybe Trump could be sent there. Sort of a Rudolf Hess, Spandau Prison situation.

[Lotusflower70]

27. Ew no

I don't want him contaminated my state.

[dflprincess]

33. I wouldn't want him here either

but the empty prison thing might solve some of the security issues. And, given that he wants to increase the use of for-profit prisons it would be fun if he wound up in one.

[Lotusflower70]

34. Lol

I get the karma angle, I prefer him in exile.

[dflprincess]

35. Exile is good too. nt

[RDANGELO]

20. As long as the Republican Party get trounced in the 2020 election,

that will be enough for me. That means that we will be heading towards a society where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and everyone has a chance to earn a decent living.

[JenniferJuniper]

26. Nope, not a second.

I think we'll have to settle for scorned, despised and left to rot naked on the ash heap of history.

[meadowlander]

30. And financially ruined

And at least two kids in jail.

What I really want to see is some of the treasonous motherfuckers in Congress outed and jailed.

[Generic Brad]

28. He physically won't make it to April 1st

He’s melting like a marshmallow soaking in warm water.

[meadowlander]

29. Too big to fail is not a good enough excuse.

Part of the reason we got Trump is because Nixon skated.

I would use the security risk as a reason to push for no contact solitary confinement, not to let him off. How long is he going to live in prison anyway?

[Pisces]

31. I'd be happy to see him complete humiliated!! And run out

Of office

[vlyons]

32. I make no such assumptions

Justice is a virtue. Let's keep an open mind, and let the karma unfold.

[MontanaMama]

36. +1

Love your post!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. Astoundingly --- 40% of the people support his job performance. nt

[harumph]

38. Trump won't last long after he leaves the presidency - health problems

[Turbineguy]

39. Kaiser Wilhelm was banished

And he killed 20 million people in WWI.

Be satisfied if Trump is out of the WH.

[spanone]

41. time will tell.

[Raine]

42. I agree

he will never do jail time, pure fantasy to think he will.

[Maru Kitteh]

43. Whatevs. a.) There's always a first - b.) I don't really care

where he goes, as long as it is away.

[yuiyoshida]

44. IT really isn't fair, ya know....

The Rich never seem to go to prison, but the poor are always thrown in Jail... cause they can't afford the fine. Or maybe its Republicans never go to prison but Democrats do...
I am sure the Republican party is happy about the Supreme court having mostly Conservatives on it...sheesh.

I am glad I live in California because at least we will have all Democrats in charge of this state.

[MrsCoffee]

45. I'm going with the IC on this one.

He will die in jail.

[RainCaster]

46. You MAY be right about him being a security risk but...

Who is going to believe that this illiterate moron actually knew anything? It would have to be brought up by the prosecution during the sentencing phase, and I doubt they really see him as a security threat.

[HAB911]

47. I doubt we ever see a president in cuffs

To spare the American people the trauma of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah