The idea of Donald Trump pardoning himself or ending his federal prosecutions if he’s elected president again has been much debated.
But what happens to the state prosecutions he’s facing is less certain.
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Mike Davis, a former Senate GOP staffer whom Donald Trump Jr., recently mused would make an ideal pick for his father as an acting attorney general, said in an interview that there could be a standoff over any state-led attempt to incarcerate Trump in the event he’s convicted in Georgia but also won the 2024 election.
“A Democrat prosecutor and Trump deranged judges don’t get to decide the presidential election,” Davis said. “The American people get to decide the presidential election. This shows the maliciousness and recklessness of this Democrat lawfare against the leading presidential candidate. There’s no way in hell the American people will let the duly elected president of the United States sit in a jail cell when they want him in the White House.”
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Davis, who runs the Article III project that during Trump’s first term helped secure lifetime appointments for more than 230 federal judges, said in an interview that there could be a standoff over any state-led attempt to incarcerate Trump in the event he won the 2024 election.
“If Democrat Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and some Trump-deranged Brian Kemp judge think they’re going to incarcerate a duly elected president of the United States they’re going to have a big problem with the Secret Service, which is required by statute to protect a former president, a major presidential candidate, a president-elect and a president of the United States,” Davis said.
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