An amazing thought from a Fox News guest via Newsweek.
Newsweek’s headline: Donald Trump Can Be President From Jail, Fox News Guest Claims
The story reports:
“A Fox News contributor said that Trump would be able to ‘be president from jail if he has to’ amid the several criminal cases against him.
Talking with fellow commentator and guest host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, better known as Kennedy, on the network’s talk show Outnumbered Monday, Fox News medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat said that despite the former president’s legal troubles, Republican voters are still rallying around him.
Over a five-month span in 2023, Trump was charged in four criminal cases—an unprecedented event for a president or former president in the first 234 years of American history.
In Washington, D.C., the former president is being prosecuted for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In Georgia, he is facing 13 felony counts for election interference in the state. The case in New York stems from the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, while a case in Florida has Trump facing 40 felony counts linked to the alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
Trump faces a total of 91 felony counts, and there is a possibility that he might be convicted of a crime worthy of imprisonment. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, saying that the cases are part of a political ‘witch hunt’ against him.
Legal experts have already discussed the possibility that the Republican candidate might still be elected in November even if he runs for office from jail, as the charges would not disqualify him from the presidency. In a statement to Time last year, Richard Hasen, an election law professor at UCLA Law School, said that ‘there is no constitutional bar on a felon running for office.’
Nesheiwat, who acts as a medical news correspondent for Fox News, said that she’s OK with the idea of Trump running the country from a prison cell. After Kennedy asked what would happen if Trump was ‘indicted at some point,’ Nesheiwat said: ‘He can be president from jail if he has to.’
She added that, ‘despite all the threats, despite all the charges, Republicans are still rallying around Donald Trump,’ adding that the criminal cases against the former president were an attempt by Democrats to weaken the former president’s campaign—something that Trump himself has repeatedly said in the past year.
‘They [Democrats] stoop so low out of fear and desperation because they have no other choice, they have no other nominee other than Biden, they know that he’s going to end up being the nominee,’ Nesheiwat said.
‘They’re taking all these actions, look at the FBI raid in Mar-a-Lago, trying to kick him off the Colorado ballot, you know, these frivolous charges by our district attorney here in New York and in Georgia, but I think it comes down, yes, in two weeks, the Iowa caucus.’
Last week, Maine became the second state to disqualify Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot after Colorado, which took the same measure after determining that the former president would be ineligible for the presidency under the state’s constitution for engaging in insurrection. Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal Colorado’s decision to the Supreme Court and said they would quickly file an objection to Maine’s ‘atrocious’ move.
Newsweek contacted Trump’s 2024 campaign for comment by email on Tuesday.
Trump is currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary, with a predicted 61.2 percent of the vote as of January 1, according to polls collated by FiveThirtyEight. Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley trailed him with 11.7 and 11 percent of the vote respectively. The former president is currently ahead in Iowa Republican primary polls too, with a predicted 50 percent of the vote as of January 1.”
The interesting fact is that the more Trump’s enemies in the legal community attack and prosecute him the higher his polls go.
