This is one of those good news, bad news scenarios. The good news is that Donald Trump will get indicted, at least according to his former fixer Michael Cohen.
The bad news is that at the end of the day, he’ll have a situation which, in essence, is no different than the one that he has now.
Listen to Cohen’s opinion that Trump will be sentenced to “strict home confinement.”
“He’s really a very dumb person.” Michael Cohen says Donald Trump will be indicted, and probably sentenced to strict home confinement as a former president. (Video: MSNBC) pic.twitter.com/melXFPzp4j
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) January 21, 2023
Trump basically has strict home confinement now. Although he declared his candidacy for president in mid-November, 2022, he hasn’t left Mar-a-Lago, other than very occasionally. Today he went to Diamond’s (Diamond & Silk, Lynette Hardaway) funeral in North Carolina.
Other than that, Trump stays home and plays golf. So it’s scarcely punishment as you and I would understand that term.
he’s right. It’ll cost too much to build a prison for him or to have secret service protect 2/7 in prison. Though it’s never happened inmates would make trump sole target for not political but financial. Now that’s a movie with Jason Statham and Liam Neeson I’d like to see.
— Inctwadumela (@inctwadumela) January 22, 2023
Trump should't be given any relief for crimes committed.
As a so called former President he took an oath and knew the ramifications of breaking the law therefore he should be held to a higher standard than the average person, not given special treatment. #DoTheCrimeDoTheTime
— Lulu 🇦🇺 💫 🇺🇸 💞 (@FLOA_MissLinda) January 21, 2023
Maybe he and Rudy will play bocce ball or shuffle board. No idea. All I can definitely say is it sounds like getting off scot free to me.
What’s sad here is that Cohen has a pretty good track record for calling the shots right.
He SHOULD be held to a higher standard. We EXPECT the holder of the highest office in government to SET the highest standards. Dimwit Donny is too stupid to realize how low he goes, he’s spent his life oblivious to normal standards of behavior, let alone the highest.
Well, a big difference is that if Trump is actually convicted, his Secret Service protection should be cut off immediately. And, his passport should be confiscated and that “home confinement” be just as strict as any regular criminal under “home confinement”–that is, any travel beyond a certain radius (mainly within the confines of Palm Beach, city and county) must be approved by a court, and ESPECIALLY if said travel involves airplanes or ships.
I disagree on the problem of a prison for Trump. A federal prison can be a military one. I’d say the brig at Quantico would do quite nicely. Yes, there’d be some expense for a special wing, but a combination of a reduced Secret Service detail augmented by a rotating set of federal correctional officers would be able to see he’s kept safe. The base itself makes that facility pretty damn secure, and IF someone were to try and bust him out or there was some kind of threat air assets would be available in minutes to evacuate him and his guard detail. Plenty of troop transport helicopters that can spin up at a moment’s notice. But the main thing is he’d be locked away in a place where access could be controlled. Cut off from the world and all the creature comforts he considers his birthright.
Ruin the man’s business and you ruin the man himself. He gets convicted, his international money pipelines automatically dry up as he is now useless to them. And we all know he’s never been a bigger saver of his money. I realize that’s not what you all want but that’s probably why Cohen wants you to pare down your expectations (assuming they’re not already in the basement).
Kamil Galeev has been saying lately that the Ukrainians are hungering for a catharsis against Putin that’s never coming. Don’t agree with that myself (Ukrainians are much more reality-based than most on this stuff, if I’m looking at the evidence right) but that thinking DOES apply to this situation.
The LAW is never concerned about any other person incarcerated! The point of the system is to PUNISH the reported offender. I wonder if anyone that works inside the system believes in Equal Justice Under Law? This sob violated the highest office in the land and the highest trust of the American system. If he’s not convicted and incarcerated, then just admit we are just like every country that allows those in power to do whatever evil they like and also lock up those who question their system of ‘laws’. The rich and powerful walk while the powerless are subject to whatever the rich and powerful decides what the rules are. In Russia you get locked up for calling the action in Ukraine a ‘war’. In Saudia Arabia you get locked up if you visit and had tweeted criticism about them while living here. The list is endless. We’ve brainwashed our citizens into believing WE ARE SPECIAL! Really???? Our history says otherwise and this serial killer is just another example of our hypocrisy.
Love that idea, Denis! I live (relatively) near that base, and I think it would be ideal!!
He might get a year in a nice upscale white collar crime facility,like the one at Eglin AFB. It used to be a,dorm for AF Enlisted, so fairly decent. Then he can serve the rest of his sentence I home confinement. Thus should not allow him to to anywhere but the residence portion where he lives. Not the dining rooms, not the ballrooms, not the golf course. Just those rooms where he lives. Period. Knowing he could be golfing or greeting guests, but confined to just his residence is the real punishment.
Build a new prison for this putz? Are you fucking kidding me? You put him in a jail cell and put the SS people outside the cell. Problem fucking solved. If a cell in general population is too dangerous, put him in solitary (which would be the best punishment for him). I personally like the cell in gen’s pop. if only because the fool would shit himself at least 3 x’s a day.
If Dumpf is not held to the same standard as comparable criminals, at the very LEAST, he should be completely stripped of all ex-presidential benefits and servies on conection to whatever sentence. I am sick of supporting his sorry fat ass and those of his spawn too.