All posts tagged "Jail"

Donald Trump may have crushed his federal cases by winning the presidential election, but there's still a chance he gets some jail time in the state case in which he was already convicted, according to an expert who was in the room during the former and incoming president's criminal trial.

Longtime Washington insider Jonathan Alter, who wrote a book about Trump's criminal trial, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss the upcoming sentencing in the case involving hush money payments to an adult film star.

He said "there will be some accountability," even if it isn't jail time....

Donald Trump's own biographer would be shocked if the former president were sentenced to fewer than 30 days in jail after he was convicted on 34 felony counts in his New York hush money cover-up case.

Trump started fundraising after the jury of his peers found him guilty in the case where he was accused of paying off a porn star to hide an alleged affair for the purposes of impacting the 2016 election. Trump's biographer, David Cay Johnston, has some strong feelings about whether the ex-president will end up incarcerated for his crimes.

Johnston appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where the host asked about Johnston's "strong opinion" on Trump's prospects for imprisonment....

The chances of the now convicted felon Donald Trump seeing the inside of a prison cell may be close to nil. But former FBI Director James Comey thinks his former boss is provoking the judge to inflict a stiff sentence.

"It seems unlikely, but I've never seen a defendant begging for a jail sentence more than one who's taken a flame thrower to the judge and the jury," said Comey who appeared on CNN's "The Situation Room" to plug his new crime novel "Westport." "It still seems unlikely to me, but Donald Trump is asking for it."

Since he was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the effort to silence an alleged tryst with porn star Stormy Daniels to influence the results of the 2016 election, Trump has erupted against the key players who had a hand in finding him guilty. ...

Former President Donald Trump is the first president in American history to be convicted of a felony — and the next step is for Judge Juan Merchan to sentence him, which could range from probation and fines to prison. But one surprising person thinks prison might not be the best option: Michael Cohen, the estranged Trump attorney who served as the prosecution's star witness.

That's because, in Cohen's reckoning, Trump could barter national secrets to other inmates to live more comfortably behind bars.

"What do you think he's feeling right now?" asked anchor Nicolle Wallace....

The crimes Donald Trump is charged with in New York wouldn't lead to jail time for a typical person being convicted of them, but Trump himself has ensured a term behind bars is at least on the mind of the judge, a former federal prosecutor said Sunday.

During an appearance on MSNBC, former Department of Justice white-collar crime prosecutor Ankush Khardori was asked about Trump's criminal hush money cover-up case.

Specifically, the host asked Khardori and Catherine Christian, a onetime assistant district attorney, whether Trump "should" go to jail if he's convicted of the charges....

Former President Donald Trump's "hate rally" in the Bronx on Thursday put the whole community in danger, said former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner in a Friday edition of his "Justice Matters" show — and more than that, it may have violated the rules placed on him by the court as a defendant.

Trump's rally, which in typical fashion had far fewer people than Trump claimed it did, is the latest of his attempts to campaign around his criminal trial in Manhattan, and was billed as an event to connect with Black and Hispanic voters.

"If Donald Trump's lips are moving, he's probably lying, inciting violence, or both, all while being on pre-trial release in multiple criminal cases," said Kirschner, adding that Trump is the "very embodiment of hatred."...