Democrat pollster and former Clinton adviser Mark Penn predicted that New York Judge Juan Merchan would send former President Donald J. Trump to jail in an effort to interfere with the election.
Many believe the presumptive GOP nominee was unjustly convicted on trumped-up charges in Merchan’s kangaroo court on Thursday and while he wasn’t immediately ordered to be locked up, that could be coming with Trump’s sentencing to be handed down on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention.
Penn appeared on Friday’s edition of “Your World” where he told Fox News host Neil Cavuto that Merchan will almost certainly put Trump behind bars to “take him out of the presidential” race which the partisan judge has been trying to do.
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“So far, this judge has wanted to take, obviously, wants to take Donald Trump out of the presidency,” Penn said. “So, for all this talk that, of course, he’s a first time offender and not eligible … he’s convicted of things that could send you to jail for 137 years. I think this judge is going to sentence him to some jail because he’s trying to take him out of the presidential race.”
“And so giving him a fine or community service isn’t gonna do that, and if he does that, I suppose Donald Trump will have another record fundraising day,” he continued.
Cavuto suggested that jailing Trump would only help him politically, turning the floor over to The Hill editor-in-chief Bob Cusack who isn’t convinced that Merchan would have the increasingly popular candidate locked up.
“I don’t think the judge can do that, I mean obviously he has the ability and the power to do that Neil, but I think that would make Trump into a martyr and in some ways, I think that would play into Trump’s hands,” he said. “But we shall see, obviously, there’s no precedent here so, but I just can’t see Trump being sentenced to prison after this verdict.”
Penn said that if Trump isn’t behind bars, he expects him to receive an “incredible reception at that convention, unlike anything he’s ever gotten before.”
“The question now is this: does the verdict weaken Trump or make him even stronger? The early returns seem to indicate that rather than reveal Trump as a scoundrel, the verdict instead suggests to many that the rule of law is in jeopardy, if a leading political candidate can be indicted by opposition prosecutors and convicted of crimes invented for the purpose. Thirty-four felonies over a seven-year-old $130,000 payment hardly looks reasonable,” Penn wrote in a Friday Fox News column.
“I opposed the Republican attempt to use the personal life of Bill Clinton to impeach him, and this attempt to use the personal life of Donald Trump to jail him is no different but has even more far-reaching consequences. Clinton gained seats in the midterms after the impeachment and, at least in the immediate aftermath, Trump is gaining more energized, angry voters,” he said.
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