The thing I’d like to know is, considering there’s a good chance he gets convicted, what then? If he’s in office, does he have immunity? Does his presidency fall short and he has to move into prison? Can they delay the process of him moving into office?
This is of course relying on the fact that there’s also a good chance he gets elected again.
We’re all in uncharted territory here so nobody REALLY knows… but here are some scenarios:
Trump is convicted and sentenced to jail before the election. 14th Amendment comes into play and the Republicans are forced to replace him as a candidate.
Trump is convicted and sentenced to jail after the election, this is going to depend on if he actually wins the election or not. If he wins, expect a pardon on the Federal charges (January 6th trial in Washington D.C., Documents charges in Florida), but CANNOT be pardoned for the State charges in New York and Georgia.
And yeah, there’s no proof a President can pardon themselves, so he steps down for 5 minutes, passes power to his VP and has his VP do it. We’re beyond shame at this point, there’s nothing preventing that.
14th Amendment doesn’t come into play as the insurrection charges are federal charges.
Likely he’s removed from office to go to jail, Vice President takes over.
Not convicted and either wins the election and takes over, or loses the election and we do this all over again in 2028.
Interesting note, if he is not convicted, in other words, the court finds nothing wrong with the playbook to use false electors to reverse the election, there is literally nothing preventing Biden and Harris from doing the exact same thing.
The thing I’d like to know is, considering there’s a good chance he gets convicted, what then? If he’s in office, does he have immunity? Does his presidency fall short and he has to move into prison? Can they delay the process of him moving into office?
This is of course relying on the fact that there’s also a good chance he gets elected again.
We’re all in uncharted territory here so nobody REALLY knows… but here are some scenarios:
Trump is convicted and sentenced to jail before the election. 14th Amendment comes into play and the Republicans are forced to replace him as a candidate.
Trump is convicted and sentenced to jail after the election, this is going to depend on if he actually wins the election or not. If he wins, expect a pardon on the Federal charges (January 6th trial in Washington D.C., Documents charges in Florida), but CANNOT be pardoned for the State charges in New York and Georgia.
And yeah, there’s no proof a President can pardon themselves, so he steps down for 5 minutes, passes power to his VP and has his VP do it. We’re beyond shame at this point, there’s nothing preventing that.
14th Amendment doesn’t come into play as the insurrection charges are federal charges.
Likely he’s removed from office to go to jail, Vice President takes over.
Interesting note, if he is not convicted, in other words, the court finds nothing wrong with the playbook to use false electors to reverse the election, there is literally nothing preventing Biden and Harris from doing the exact same thing.