RNC makes plans for trump to accept nomination from prison

This Trump disaster for the republican party is self-inflicted. Americans suffer from their leaderships' abandoned principles and lack of courage. It's delusional to pretend these felony convictions will somehow propel Donald Trump back into office. If he wins, cheating will have occurred in my opinion. Cheating to "win" is his MO in everything. Now cheating and being convicted of several is seemingly acceptable for this republican coalition if they are planning on a contingency of Donald Trump being incarcerated. I wonder if they will party like it's 1999 at their convention? I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.

Honestly, I don't see this being an issue. Even without the special circumstances around who he is, he's an elderly first time offender convicted of a low-grade non-violent, non-drug felony. He's not likely to see prison IMO.

Sure they would ramp up security for Trump, the Secret Service already has plans for that. But if Trump goes to jail he should get no special treatment. Perhaps he can call the convention collect if it is the right time for a phone call and the number is one of the fifteen on his list. Note he may only get ten minutes if others are waiting to use the phone. I imagine the dems will create a line of prisoners waiting for phones.

From Telephone Calls

"Incarcerated individuals are only permitted to call persons on their approved telephone list and may only have up to 15 telephone numbers on their approved list at any time. Phone numbers may only be added or deleted at the request of the incarcerated individual. This is generally done on a quarterly basis when they meet with their assigned Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator.

If you do not wish to receive telephone calls from someone in a correctional facility, you need to notify the facility, in writing, and your name will be entered on the incarcerated individual's Negative Correspondence and Telephone List. The incarcerated individual will be immediately notified in writing that you have been removed from their "Telephone List" and that disciplinary action may be taken if the telephone is used in any manner to contact you. In addition, your telephone number will be removed from the telephone system.

According to the type of facility, incarcerated individuals are generally permitted to make phone calls every day, including holidays, between the hours of 7 AM to 11 PM.

A schedule for phone calls will be established. Calls will automatically be terminated when the facility specific time limit has been reached, preceded by a warning. No calls will exceed 30 minutes. When other incarcerated individuals are waiting to place calls, a 10-minute limit may be imposed."

Yeah - I actually don't think there is anything (as in a law) preventing a president from being president from prison. It's interesting - I wonder why the Constitution didn't say anything about this (if I'm not mistaken).

Lady Bug said:

Yeah - I actually don't think there is anything (as in a law) preventing a president from being president from prison. It's interesting - I wonder why the Constitution didn't say anything about this (if I'm not mistaken).

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The only requirements that the Constitution has for the office of President is that a person be of certain age, be a natural-born citizen (which is generally accepted now to mean have citizenship at birth, regardless of where you were born,) and be resident in the US for a certain amount of time. Because they were relying on elder statesmen to elect the President, they didn't feel the need to define things more than that, with the assumption that the EC would weed out anybody unqualified or ill repute.