US election 2024: Donald Trump to be jailed after November 5 polls results?
Trump's four criminal cases are quietly chugging along in court even as his race against Vice President Kamala Harris dominates the news. Important legal battles continue to be fought, and motions to be filed. Even now, Trump's lawyers are preparing for him to be sentenced — possibly to jail time — on his one conviction so far at a hearing in New York City scheduled for three weeks after Election Day, NYT Service reported.
Trump has told people close to him that if he wins the election, the legal cases would simply «go away.» On Thursday, he said he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who filed two federal cases against him, «within two seconds» if he regains the White House. «I don't think they'll impeach me if I fire Jack Smith,» Trump, who was impeached twice by the House of Representatives, told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
He went further in another radio interview, suggesting that Smith should be deported along with immigrants in the country without legal permission. «Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged and he should be thrown out of the country,» Trump said on WABC, a talk radio station in New York.
Becoming president again would place Trump back in charge of the Justice Department, giving him significant powers to dispose of the indictments brought by Smith. In one of those cases, based in Washington, Trump stands accused of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. In the other, based in Florida, he was charged with illegally holding on to classified material after leaving office.
Artif
