That's what a former federal prosecutor predicted Donald Trump had a “significant chance of dying in prison” if he lost the upcoming presidential election, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Considering the number of pending criminal charges against the ex-president, Harry Litman — who was a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania during the Clinton administration — said he suspected a loss to Trump in November would result in the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee spending the rest of his life behind bars.
“If he doesn't win, he has a significant chance of dying in prison,” Litman said on this week's episode of former Sen. John Litman. Al Franken's (D-min.) podcast. “The whole timeline, the whole crisis point of November disappears. So if he doesn't win on the 5th, those cases are ready to be filed.”
On the other hand, if Trump were to win a second presidential term, Litman expected he would try to use his political power to have the charges against him dropped.
Trump became the first former president in United States history to be convicted of a crime when he was found guilty last month on 34 crimes related to corporate fraud in his New York hush money trial. He has appealed the convictionbut his sentence will be determined by the judge Juan Merchan during a sentencing hearing in July.
Musing on what awaited Trump at the sentencing hearing, Litman said, “What does matter, should matter, what would matter with any other defendant, is whether someone is unrepentant. Has he shown that he in fact understands that – has he been healed by the law? And Trump, you know, it's like he would explode, right?
The legal analyst expected that when Trump appeared for sentencing, he would be “the picture of the unrepentant defendant, and that matters.”
Litman predicted that the judge would order Trump to spend a few months in jail, but noted that the appeals process could push back the timeline for years before Trump would serve at any point. The charge carries a possible prison sentence of up to four years.
“The prosecutor, I think, will ask what would be a big sentence here, which is not a big sentence, say four, six months, and my best guess is to apply neutral principles that would apply to everyone and are not related. Because of the personal attacks he makes every day, Merchan will give him a few months,” Litman explained.
'To be clear, he will never see the inside of a cell again for the next few years, which is on November 5th [election] you know, looms large over there,” he speculated.
In addition to the hush money conviction, Trump also faces three other legal challenges: a federal prosecution in Washington DC over alleged election fraud and his actions in connection with the January 6, 2021 insurrection on Capitol Hill; a federal case in Florida for his alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstructing efforts to recover them; and a state lawsuit in Georgia over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The cases in Florida and Georgia have been postponed indefinitely, and the DC case is on hold while the Supreme Court reviews Trump's claims of “presidential immunity.”
In a e-mail To his supporters on Wednesday, as RadarOnline.com reported, Trump claimed he was willing to “go to jail AGAIN AND OVER if that's what it takes to save America.”
