Under normal circumstances, President-elect Donald Trump would have been sentenced to prison, former Watergate prosecutor and former US assistant attorney Nick Akerman says.
#USA #Trump
#USA #Trump
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00So, just to be clear, in a parallel universe, had Donald Trump not won the election in November,
00:06do you think he'd be headed to prison quite soon?
00:09Oh, I think so. He would have been sent to prison in the Hush Money case in Manhattan.
00:16Do you think the only reason that the judge did not sentence him to prison in that case
00:22was because of the practicalities of the fact that you can't put a sitting president in
00:28jail because they can't perform their duties? I think where I differ with Judge Merchant
00:33on that is he certainly could have sentenced him to a term of imprisonment to be followed
00:39at the time Trump's duties as president no longer existed.