I do NOT think the guy actually WANTS to go to jail….
But I have come agree with the below linked piece that the ex-President IS running his mouth in way that just COULD get him there….
In the current Manhattan criminal trial?
Trump’s inability to STF up could very well be the homer ball for DA Briggs effort to convict an America ex-President and led the way fro other criminal trials against Trump….
The NY State rules for first time offenders convicted of lower, E Felonies that are not violent is probation….
But?
A judge CAN sentence that person to up to 1 to 4 year’s IN JAIL….
And if judge Merchan actually gives Trump jail time.?…
This Secret Service thing ain’t gonna matter…..
Both Trump and the agents are going to Rikers Island Jail….
Trump wouldn’t be in with the general population of course….
But he’d be in jail cell which ain’t Trump Towers…
And there would be NO staff , supporters of media around…..
Just him and some miserable agents down the hall, all under the control of jail guards….
Regardless, prosecutors appear to see the value of using Trump’s own outbursts against him. At the start of the case in mid-April, prosecutors told Merchan that they might introduce some of the statements Trump made that they already believed were in violation of the gag order.
If they were to do that with Trump’s broadsides since the trial began, the effect could be potent: The jurors would get to see just how inappropriately Trump has been acting outside the courtroom while he has been on trial — and while the jurors, whose lives have been upended and permanently changed by their participation in the case, have been trying to carry out their civic responsibility.
In a bizarre twist of fate, however, Trump may have been saved by none other than Harvey Weinstein — or, more to the point, the recent decision from New York’s highest court that threw out Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crimes. The court concluded that prosecutors in the Manhattan D.A.’s office had improperly introduced irrelevant and unduly prejudicial testimony about alleged sexual assaults by Weinstein that were distinct from those directly charged in the case.
The jury has so far been shielded from Trump’s contempt proceedings. Particularly given the Weinstein ruling, prosecutors are now likely to be wary of a higher court later concluding that the judge inadvertently let the government back-door the contempt finding in this way when it otherwise would not have been admissible.
The much bigger problem for Trump, however, is that he is materially increasing the odds that he will be sent to prison if he is convicted at the end of the trial.
Since the start of this case, many observers — myself very much included — have questioned whether Trump would serve any sort of prison sentence if he is convicted at the close of the case. After all, the case is novel; this is the first-ever criminal prosecution against a former president; and New York courts tend to go easy on first-time white-collar offenders.
Trump’s running public commentary, however, is clearly angering both prosecutors and the judge.
At the hearing last week about whether Trump should be held in contempt of court for a second time, one of the prosecutors expressed the office’s frustration sharply — telling Merchan that Trump’s statements have been “corrosive to this proceeding and to the fair administration of justice” and that Trump has been trying to “make this about politics, and it’s not — it’s about his criminal conduct.”
And here was Merchan on Monday, again slapping Trump with criminal contempt: “Your continued willful violations of this court’s orders threaten to interfere with the … administration of justice and constitute a direct attack on the rule of law.” Trump’s attacks on the jury and its selection, he added in his written ruling, “again raised the specter of fear for the safety of the jurors and of their loved ones.”
If Trump is convicted, it will be up to this same team of prosecutors to decide whether to seek a prison sentence for Trump, and it will be up to the same judge to determine the sentence.
Judges are generally granted very wide latitude in crafting sentences, and they are free to consider a broad array of factors that are specific to the offense and to the offender — including the need to deter the defendant from further misconduct and to send a message to the community about the sort of conduct that is prohibited by the law. Indeed, under federal law, judges are explicitly required to craft sentences that consider (among other things) the need to “promote respect for the law,” which Trump clearly lacks.
The odds that Trump might face some time in prison after a conviction were already quietly creeping up thanks to the fact that Allen Weisselberg, his company’s former CFO, has been sentenced to two different five-month stints on Riker’s Island after pleading guilty to conduct that benefited Trump. Weisselberg first pleaded guilty to a tax-fraud scheme that benefited the Trump Organization and resulted in a conviction of the company itself. In March, he pleaded guilty to lying under oath during the New York Attorney General’s civil business-fraud trial against Trump.
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Prosecutors and judges are supposed to ensure that the sentencing process is fair in a variety of respects, including by ensuring that different defendants are treated equally and fairly. If Trump is convicted and prosecutors decide to seek a prison sentence, he will need a very good argument to explain why he should get probation after his employee served two prison sentences following guilty pleas that stemmed from conduct to benefit Trump himself.
Trump’s behavior outside the courtroom will make matters even worse for him if the day arrives when Merchan has to hand down a sentence for him.
The problem will not just be the statements that Trump has made that run afoul of the gag order — statements that appear designed to influence the proceeding by intimidating witnesses and to delegitimize a potential guilty verdict by smearing the judge and the jury with baseless allegations that they are corrupt or biased against him….
Note….
Trump’s dissing judges has already cost him more than a Half Billion Dollars in Civil Court fine.’s….