Former President Donald Trump received a $5,000 fine on Friday for violating the gag order put in place by Judge Arthur Engoron to protect his staff and his courtroom’s proceedings.

$5000. What bullshit.

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    11 months ago

    It’s not literally legally impossible, but the logistics of dealing with Secret Service protection for someone in prison make it extremely difficult, plus it’s obviously unprecedented to put a former president in jail, and the added complication of it being the primary competition to the sitting president in the next election.

    There are a lot of reasons a judge would want to avoid prison, specifically. And the system is set up such that if there are circumstances where there’s a good reason to avoid prison for a certain person, there are alternative punishments like fines or house arrest.

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        Literally impossible. The physical and mental demand on everyone involved would be more than any one person could endure.

          • @Daft_ish
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            The secret service HAS to be there. I don’t know what you don’t understand about that. The secret service HAS to be there. That’s without a doubt. The secret service being there that is.

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                Sorry, don’t mind me. Just trolling.