Posted on 03/17/2023 3:03:15 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Picture this: It's 9 p.m. on January 13, 2026 — a Tuesday — and you tune in to your favorite cable-news network to watch the president's annual State of the Union address.
But this year, the president doesn't take a bulletproof limo from the White House to the US Capitol. Gone are the hundreds of members of Congress traditionally in attendance. Instead, the commander in chief is wearing an orange jumpsuit, his message streamed to lawmakers and into your living room via Zoom from his prison cell.
Yes, this scenario is equally far-fetched and outlandish — in the extreme.
But it's also possible, law experts told Insider, particularly given former President Donald Trump's mounting legal woes and his announcement November 15 that he is again running for president.
Those legal problems intensified in dramatic fashion this summer as the FBI reportedly searched his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
The Justice Department is currently scrutinizing Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 US election. Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, are pursuing potential criminal charges against Trump and his associates. The National Archives also asked the department in February to investigate if Trump broke the law when he took official government records with him to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.
And for months, the US House January 6 select committee has built a decidedly public case that Trump was intimately involved in the deadly attack on the US Capitol, and did nothing for hours to stop it. The committee has ordered Trump to testify, and Trump is fighting back.
If Trump landed in prison, nothing in the Constitution would block him from continuing the White House run, according to nine legal experts interviewed by Insider.
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Please find me “running for President” in the Constitution.
For that matter (except for Electors casting their votes in December), please find me “Presidential election” in the Constitution.
Could he pardon himself? I’d pay good money to see that.
They are poisoning any potential jury pools.
-PJ
He definitely could. His chances would be probably sharply improved. Woodrow Wilson jailed socialist candidate Eugene v debs prior to the 1920 election. Debs ended up getting over a million votes from jail— one of the largest hauls in socialist history. After Warren Harding pardons him on Christmas Eve, votes for socialists declined in 1924.
Wilson pioneered the jail your opponents by using the FBI method.
I agree. I would add in the electorate as well.
from what I gather, the Stormy thing is a civil suit, that’s just a fine, not prison.
Crooked judges nowadays can do anything, but Trump has nothing to worry about if he gets an honest judge. The case should be dismissed on motion.
Only a president in office has power to pardon.
If DJT is charged there’s no way that a verdict would occur before the election.His lawyers would make sure of that....even if the prosecutor’s office doesn’t.
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True.
Then again, if this situation did happen I am sure that Trump would have so many federal investigations with New York State.
That is, if he doesn’t pick another Jeff Sessions.
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I will vote for Trump if he is prison, without any hesitation.
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