What his stay there looks like
If convicted in any of the three criminal cases he is now facing, Donald Trump may be able to influence whether he goes to prison and what his stay there looks like under a law that allows former U.S. presidents to keep Secret Service protection for life, some current and former U.S. officials said.
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Trump could force politically and logistically complex questions over whether officials should detail agents to protect a former American president behind bars, leave it to prison authorities to keep him safe, or secure him under some type of home confinement, former U.S. officials said.
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The charges Trump faces technically come with the possibility of decades in prison — though pleas, verdicts and possible punishments are very far off.
Of course, he doesn’t have decades, plural.
Mary McCord, who served as acting assistant attorney general for national security during President Barack Obama’s administration and led the department for the first several months under Trump, said Trump presents unique challenges to the Justice Department. Ensuring some penalty for a former president under Secret Service detail would require extensive discussions and potential accommodations, “because it really would be a pretty enormous burden on our prison system to have to incarcerate Donald Trump.”
Ok then how about this: convert a small garage or similar at one of his resorts to a little one-guy prison with room for the Secret Service detail.
The Secret Service can direct and oversee protection by others, assigning a special detail to work inside the Bureau of Prisons, or potentially helping prison officials enforce a custodial sentence at home — potentially such as at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., or Mar-a-Lago residences or elsewhere.
If Trump is locked up at Bedminster or Mar-a-Lago it had better not be in full luxury conditions. This is why I suggest a converted garage. Am I vindictive about this? Damn right I am.
H/t What a Maroon
I suggest an escape from New York style scenario but with Mar-a-Lago instead. I’m sure the US government has some plans for a “hugely” high wall lying around somewhere. And the razor wire would look nice glinting in the Florida sun.
I can dream.
Yeah but if he’s just confined to Mar-a-Lago THAT’S NOT PUNISHMENT ENOUGH. The Central Park Five weren’t locked up at a luxury resort, so why should their sadistic tormenter who turns out to be a prolific criminal be?
Have him pay a fine of $1000 to every single voter who he tried to disenfranchise, and be jailed until it’s paid. I’m dreaming I know, but the shitty reality is that the greasy weasel is likely to evade any real justice.
Give him a whole ward in a normal prison, but the inmates around him are Secret Service, changing three shifts a day.
Lock him up somewhere remote with no TV, no internet, no electronic entertainment of any kind, but a lifetime subscription to the Washington Post and a library curated by Obama.
And put him on a vegan diet, heavy on fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, and no processed food.
He’d probably live longer, but be terribly miserable.
I like the way you think.
Thanks. I forgot to mention: no golf, but a fully-appointed gym.
@5 and 7 – this reminds me of something I once heard a witch say – cursing and hexing are not only morally wrong but also likely to boomerang back against you, but if you want to avoid that ethical and logistical pitfall you can instead wish someone something that you would be happy to have happen to yourself. Her favourite was ‘may you be given the gift of seeing yourself as others see you.’
I’m thinking (hoping) it might be workable in a minimum-security prison…?
We could exile him as Napoleon was to St. Helena. I’m thinking build him as nice little concrete en suite at Guantanamo. The Marines will see that he comes to no harm.
DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED????
I hear Gitmo has some cells available.
@What a Maroon
#5
The Allied authorities prevented Goering from doing drugs in prison, and he lost some weight.
@Colin Day,
Goering did manage to smuggle one drug into prison.
And if Trump decides to self-administer some cyanide, well, I won’t mourn.
I don’t really see what the problem is. Detail three shifts of secret service officers per day to the prison. They can escort him to and from solo time in the exercise yard, and bring him his meals. I’m given to understand that there are places in federal prisons where some people are held without any notice to anyone, no access to counsel or family or anything. If there are such secret and isolated facilities that no one even knows where they are, then put him there and send his secret service detail there to help guard him and keep him both safe and secure. Then again, there are all the overseas “secret rendition” facilities operated by USA. Use one for something good, for once.
My choice would be to put him in solitary confinement in an ultra-max prison. Stick the Secret Service agents outside the door, on rotating shifts.