Trump says he'll run for president from jail if convicted on any of his various indictments

[Phil01]

Trump says he’ll run for president from jail if convicted on any of his various indictments
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-ll-run-president-164614583.html

Donald Trump said on Friday that he would run for president from prison in 2024 if he is convicted on any of the number of criminal charges he faces.

The former president and current Republican frontrunner made the comments during a radio interview with conservative host John Fredericks. During the exchange, Mr Trump denied new charges brought against him by federal prosecutors claiming that he instructed employees at his Mar-a-Lago resort to destroy security recordings.

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[FarPoint]

1. Well....he could win but...

he can never serve as I sense his sentence in prison will take the lead and thus never be able to leave jail with a 20 year sentence. Apparently he would want to Pardon himself....I don't think that is permitted.

[Shrek]

3. The legal question has never been tested

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-a-president-pardon-himself/

"The big unanswered question is whether the president might be able to pardon himself," Jeffrey Crouch, an assistant professor of American politics at American University and an expert on executive clemency. "No president has ever tried it, so we don't know what the result would be if it was attempted."

The Constitution gives the president broad power to pardon federal crimes, except in cases involving impeachment. The president also can't pardon state offenses. Apart from that, in explicit terms, the Constitution is quiet. And history and precedent don't offer significant insight, says Harvard constitutional scholar Mark Tushnet.

"The arguments about whether a president can pardon himself are not only unsettled in the sense that they haven't come up before, but they're also unsettled in the sense that reasonable lawyers could look at the materials and say either result is legally defensible," Tushnet said.

[FarPoint]

5. well then....

for insurance purposes....his state crimes/convictions in Georgia will help seal the deal...Fingers crossed.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

2. Works for me, lock him up and we'll see how that goes, lol, sounds like great entertainment

[HariSeldon]

4. Depends on the J6 charges Smith convicts him of

If they include seditious conspiracy, he might not be eligible to hold the office under the 14th Amendment.

[FarPoint]

6. YES!

[ShazzieB]

23. Yes, please!

[TreasonousBastard]

7. The law be damned. I suspect someone, somewhere is planning...

just what to do if the fucker tries to govern from jail.

He can govern from Hell and see if the Devil listens.

[gab13by13]

8. What happened to the explanation

That everything is a witch hunt?

[tanyev]

9. May it be so.

[Hotler]

10. He should be in prison now.

[Silent3]

29. Yep, and just the opposite will probably happen even if he'd convicted...

...he'll be allowed to remain free until every last appeal is exhausted, which could take years.

[gulliver]

11. We're so lucky to have him around in our time

He's giving the country free destructive testing.

[LastDemocratInSC]

12. He won't be allowed to throw plates and food at the walls when he's angry.

[usedtobedemgurl]

13. Keep picturing yourself in jail, donnie. nt

[Celerity]

19. visual aid

[GPV]

20. +1

[usedtobedemgurl]

25. Thank you. I have always been partial to visual aids!!! nt

[dalton99a]

14. Sounds good.

[rso]

15. Trump

Great for democrats.

[ananda]

17. Grifting is an addiction.

You'd think he'd go cold turkey in prison,
but he's just gotta keep grifting.

[Smackdown2019]

18. I like to see this happen!

I like to see this happen! Hope he runs for President behind BARS.

It be kinda hard to attend the Presidential debates when the call booth asked in the middle of the call for more money... lmao.

Dont know if that what the call booth ask for, but wouldn't doubt it... lmao.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

21. Running for president from jail.....🤔

Putting aside the fact that a conviction disqualifies him and true red MAGA's will write him in and waste their vote.
Being in jail means no rallies, no fund raising events and no debts.

As usual, talking without thinking.

[WarGamer]

24. A conviction does NOT disqualify him, legally...

Unless it's for Sedition.

[DFW]

26. Send your contributions to:

D. Trump for president
c/o Federal Correctional Facility
Ossining, NY

[Emile]

27. So be it! 😎

[Hortensis]

28. What I'm hearing is that he thinks he could go to prison. Good.

From his mouth to RW ears. Let them get used to that image.

"One could end up goin' to prison."

[Phil01]

31. Scenario -- First President impeached while *already* in prison ...

Hope it won't come to that.

[Hortensis]

32. :) But more likely scenario: Presidential nominee convicted

of multiple serious crimes -- plus GOP taken over by RW religious white male nationalist extremists -- results in not just loss of the presidency and both congressional chambers, but control of a number of state governments.

They're really worried -- for really good reason.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. His resemblance to Zaphod Beeblebrox increases

Zaphod Beeblebrox’s full title was President of the Imperial Galactic Government. The term Imperial is kept, though it is now an anachronism. The hereditary emperor is now nearly dead - and has been for many centuries. This is because in his last dying moments he was - much to his imperial irritation - locked in a perpetual stasis field. All his heirs are now, of course, long dead and the upshot of all this is that without any drastic upheaval political power has simply and effectively moved a rung or two down the ladder, and is now seemed to be vested in an elected governmental assembly, headed by a president elected by that assembly. In fact, it vests in no such place - that would be too easy. The president’s job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he won’t realise this - is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the only man in history to have made presidential telecasts from the bath, from Eccentrica Gallumbits bedroom, from the maximum-security wing of the Betelgeuse State Prison, or from where ever else he happened to be at the time, was supremely good at this job.

https://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio9.htm

For Eccentrica Gallumbits, read 'Stormy Daniels'. He may not have broadcast from the bath yet, but his tweets from the toilet/classified document storage facility are pretty much the same thing.