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Could Trump Go to Prison? If He Does, the Secret Service Goes, Too

www.nytimes.com Could Trump Go to Prison? If He Does, the Secret Service Goes, Too

Officials have had preliminary discussions about how to protect the former president in the unlikely event that he is jailed for contempt during the trial.

The U.S. Secret Service is in the business of protecting the president, whether he’s inside the Oval Office or visiting a foreign war zone.

But protecting a former president in prison? The prospect is unprecedented. That would be the challenge if Donald J. Trump — whom the agency is required by law to protect around the clock — is convicted at his criminal trial in Manhattan and sentenced to serve time.

Even before the trial’s opening statements, the Secret Service was in some measure planning for the extraordinary possibility of a former president behind bars. Prosecutors had asked the judge in the case to remind Mr. Trump that attacks on witnesses and jurors could land him in jail even before a verdict is rendered.

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I would hope that being found guilty of treason would revoke any duty to protect them by the secret service...
Trump will not go to a normal prison / gen pop, etc. Toss that thought from your mind.

Trump will die in a shitty military barracks on a shitty military base where he has no internet connection, access to him can be easily controlled & he can't blab state secrets.

There is already a precedent here with Nixon's lawyer.
I feel like losing the protection of the secret service should be part of being tried and convicted of a crime if you are the president.
So one thing I don't fully understand is this: the secret service is required by law to protect the former president, but...is there anything that actually requires the state of New York to accommodate the secret service in doing so?

In theory, couldn't the state of New York just actually throw Trump in prison, no special privileges, and also no special accommodations for the secret service?
The fact that this is where American is at is disgraceful.

This traitor needs the maximum penalty and his supporters need to undergo some sort of education on Russian propoganda.
Even if convicted he'll get house arrest. I doubt he will ever see a club Fed from the inside, let alone a supermax.

Maybe a military prison?
He's never going to prison. That's all power-fantasy at this point. How many times in the past 8 years have we've heard this shit in and out? "Oh he's so going to prison for this one thing he did!" "Oh he's definitely going to prison for THAT..."

8 years and this clown is openly doing his shit.
I was reading somewhere that congress has introduced legislation barring the secret service from protecting the president once the president is convicted. But good luck getting that passed.
Kind of like Egyptian kings getting buried with their servants.
Maybe they'll get lucky and his cameras will go off for a while when he's on "constant suicide watch."
I hope that this happens and every single SS agent assigned to this post quits. Who would take a job to be in jail protecting a farting lunatic? Welcome to the SS Johnson, your entire life will be spent behind bars!
that would be funny and I would love to see that
It's unsatisfying to say, but house arrest would make the most sense for the secret service.
Why not just build a small presidential prison?
Throw him in a solitary super max prison cell. Security won't be needed.
Why? If he's a convicted criminal, strip his salary and all his benefits, including the secret service.
Im sure he'll be very secure without them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence
Maybe we would finally get prison reform, then
Cool, take them all to a black site in one of those shithole countries he rants about. Guantanamo Bay still open?
obviously it wouldnt be prison like real prison but more of like goodfellas prison
Other countries have jailed their leaders. If you’re a felon and get jailed as a former President I figure you should lose everything, SS protection, any pension and any benefits are gone too. Why should a jailed president get those things?
I would love to be the USSS person in charge of logistics for this.

I don’t know why. It would be like a strategy/sim game.

All the other agents have different attributes, and the conditions at the prison change during the day.

I’ve already put too much thought into it and I have no idea why I find it interesting.
I was hoping this was about the Secret Service deleting insurrection related text messages, but sadly not.
Guantanamo bay was practically designed for this scenario. Just dump his ass there and forget about him.
In the extraordinarily unlikely scenario this Cheeto ever sees a day in prison, it sure as fuck won't be a normal prison. It will be a white collar situation and honestly he would probably be the only person there. Could you imagine the fucking shit storm putting him in gen pop??
The answer to questions in headlines is damn near always 'no.'
And this is why Trump will never see the inside of a jail cell. The logistics are completely unprecedented and unworkable. At most he'll get house arrest, and personally, I doubt even that.
Theyre dumb enough to keep him in eye shot, let em go
Probably cheaper for the state of New York to just do house arrest with ankle bracelet. How about a halfway house?
He will never go to prison
i vote that we just kill the president if they get arrested, it solves more than one problem 🤷

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