The U.S. Secret Service is in the business of protecting the president, whether he’s inside the Oval Office or visiting a foreign war zone.

But protecting a former president in prison? The prospect is unprecedented. That would be the challenge if Donald J. Trump — whom the agency is required by law to protect around the clock — is convicted at his criminal trial in Manhattan and sentenced to serve time.

Even before the trial’s opening statements, the Secret Service was in some measure planning for the extraordinary possibility of a former president behind bars. Prosecutors had asked the judge in the case to remind Mr. Trump that attacks on witnesses and jurors could land him in jail even before a verdict is rendered.

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    7 months ago

    Trump will not go to a normal prison / gen pop, etc. Toss that thought from your mind.

    Trump will die in a shitty military barracks on a shitty military base where he has no internet connection, access to him can be easily controlled & he can’t blab state secrets.

    There is already a precedent here with Nixon’s lawyer.

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      7 months ago

      Other than your first sentence, this is pure fantasy. He’ll never go far enough to trigger actual accountability from those that matter…

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        I remember when that line was “they’ll never indict an ex-President”.

        Trump is going to die in Federal custody if he doesn’t win re-election.

        There is not a single example of the DoJ spending this amount of money & manpower to say “oh well”.

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          I hope you’re right. Not because I care that much about Trump, but because laws matter. You can’t expect people to follow them when one person can brazenly flout them with zero consequences…