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He's calling the court's bluff. I'm afraid it'll work. They should hold him in contempt and put in in jail, pending trial. I don't believe they will.
I don't think they are ready to work out the kinks of jailing secret service as well. Best outcome is that he is in house arrest and the end of all of this.
Best outcome to treason and coup attempt is house arrest? Lol.
While we're at it, let's do house arrest in an old castle, and make sure all of his friends have house arrest there as well. Maybe have him write a book of some kind, say "My Struggles" or something...
He isn't being investigated or tried for either of those so at the same time we can contemplate what the outcome of his parking ticket would be. Who cares?
For what he is currently being investigated and tried for, I don't believe he would see time in a real jail for. Likely spent the remainder of his life in a decent house with no opportunity to leave. Secret service won't be stripped and I don't see them sharing a jail cell with him. Let alone having a random inmate share a cell or mess hall with a former president.
I just hope whatever outcome he gets includes the inability to post to social media. As much as the punishment needs to dissuade people in the future from behaving like him, I just want to stop hearing his opinion on stuff. It physically hurts to hear his thoughts on stuff. And no matter how hard I try, there seems to be no escape as long as his thoughts exist on social media somewhere, they exist on it everywhere...
He is a social weapon. Weaponised ignorance.
John Dean served prison time in a military facility for Watergate, and he was just Nixon's White House counsel. We have the means to imprison a former president outside of the existing federal prison system.
I think house arrest is the most rational and likely outcome but a military like facility is possible too, I hadn't considered that and am not sure what it would look like. Probably the most secure outcome