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Here's how Donald Trump could theoretically run for president in 2024 from prison and govern the US behind bars, according to 9 legal scholars
Business Insider ^ | March 15, 2023 | Robin Bravender, Tina Sfondeles, and Dave Levinthal

Posted on 03/17/2023 3:03:15 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Picture this: It's 9 p.m. on January 13, 2026 — a Tuesday — and you tune in to your favorite cable-news network to watch the president's annual State of the Union address.

But this year, the president doesn't take a bulletproof limo from the White House to the US Capitol. Gone are the hundreds of members of Congress traditionally in attendance. Instead, the commander in chief is wearing an orange jumpsuit, his message streamed to lawmakers and into your living room via Zoom from his prison cell.

Yes, this scenario is equally far-fetched and outlandish — in the extreme.

But it's also possible, law experts told Insider, particularly given former President Donald Trump's mounting legal woes and his announcement November 15 that he is again running for president.

Those legal problems intensified in dramatic fashion this summer as the FBI reportedly searched his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The Justice Department is currently scrutinizing Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 US election. Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, are pursuing potential criminal charges against Trump and his associates. The National Archives also asked the department in February to investigate if Trump broke the law when he took official government records with him to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.

And for months, the US House January 6 select committee has built a decidedly public case that Trump was intimately involved in the deadly attack on the US Capitol, and did nothing for hours to stop it. The committee has ordered Trump to testify, and Trump is fighting back.

If Trump landed in prison, nothing in the Constitution would block him from continuing the White House run, according to nine legal experts interviewed by Insider.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1morebs; bsinsider; election2024; eugenevdebbs; fakenews; falselyaccused; joebiden; trump; trump2024
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I know it would never happen but I thought this was an interesting scenario if it did happen. Notice it took three people to write the article?
1 posted on 03/17/2023 3:03:15 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Couldn’t Trump just pardon himself?


2 posted on 03/17/2023 3:07:08 PM PDT by sloanrb
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Propaganda!

It is more likely that SCOUTUS throws out the election and installs Trump as POTUS.


3 posted on 03/17/2023 3:07:49 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

They’re building the premise that Trump is definitely going
to go to prison. Weak minds will suck it up.

This is such an insidious tactic.

I’ve never seen such a disgusting effort to take down a
decent man in my life.


4 posted on 03/17/2023 3:08:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Shouldn’t Business Insider be concentrating on the woke bank failures? Oh I forgot. They are really a leftist publication. Nothing to do with business.


5 posted on 03/17/2023 3:08:40 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.i later)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

According to 9 legal scholar.

Yeah the Russia Russia Russia hustle went well for them too huh Moe.


6 posted on 03/17/2023 3:10:33 PM PDT by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Take a step back and look at the spectacle.

America is on the precipice. We are staring at becoming a banana republic.


7 posted on 03/17/2023 3:10:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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“...if Trump broke the law when he took official government records with him to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.”


Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe President Trump was still President when he went to Mar A Largo, so he could take whatever records he pleased.


8 posted on 03/17/2023 3:11:15 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Macho MAGA Man

How about we try it with jo b first.


9 posted on 03/17/2023 3:12:29 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

That would be so bad azz! His Secret Service detail could wear doo-rags to show they ain’t playin’!


10 posted on 03/17/2023 3:12:46 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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They are hoping to create another contrived "Reichstag Fire" J6 event to discredit Trump and his supporters.

They are getting desperate because Trump is on a glide path to win his third straight presidential election.

11 posted on 03/17/2023 3:13:20 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,942,927 Truth | 87,539,833 Twitter)
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Forget saying we’re a Banana Republic.

We aren’t a republic anymore.

We’re just bananas.


12 posted on 03/17/2023 3:16:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

This is idiocy.


13 posted on 03/17/2023 3:24:37 PM PDT by rivercat
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To: SamAdams76

I’ll vote for him.

We saved Bastogne. We sent men to the moon.

We smashed ISIS

Voting for Trump is obvious. The man set foot in East Palestine.


14 posted on 03/17/2023 3:29:35 PM PDT by combat_boots (ll bushes that are the sons’ wives)
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To: Vaduz

As I recall, Eugene V. Debs did it.


15 posted on 03/17/2023 3:35:22 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: combat_boots

Same here.


16 posted on 03/17/2023 3:38:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,942,927 Truth | 87,539,833 Twitter)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I shouldn’t comment on an absurd premise they set up.

However I might add my usual “they can save on electricity after sundown because there will be so much fire from the burning cities people will mistake night for midday outside.”


17 posted on 03/17/2023 3:39:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Lmao 🤣


18 posted on 03/17/2023 3:41:00 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Once elected, he resigns and his trusted VP becomes president. He then pardons Trump and selects him as his VP. Then the president resigns and Trump regains the presidency. He then re-selects the former VP.

It takes a trusted VP and a compliant senate. In other words, it can’t happen.


19 posted on 03/17/2023 3:41:38 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: PGR88

RE:Take a step back and look at the spectacle.

America is on the precipice. We are staring at becoming a banana republic.
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Sorry, but I see that banana republic in my rear view mirror.

Richard Pryor to Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy as Wilder realizes we are both totally innocent, framed, convicted and actually going to prison.

Pryor: Yes. Welcome to the real world. And not a moment too soon.


20 posted on 03/17/2023 3:42:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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