Being on probation means not associating with criminals, which...

Being on probation means not associating with criminals, which would be hard for Trump to comply with as he has a vast network of criminals he associates with.

It Trump associates with criminals while he is on probation, that could lead him straight to jail.

Going to be fun.

Legal expert: Probation terms may prove "challenging" for Trump — but "his alternative is prison"
Trump may have trouble with rule against “associating with criminals" since so many allies have been convicted
June 10, 2024




Seated in front of a computer at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump will be asked to explain, politely, why he is a man who can be trusted.

The former president has been judged by a jury of his peers, being found guilty of 34 felonies. It is now time, in the eyes of the New York criminal justice system, to devise a fitting punishment. Accordingly, a probation officer on Monday will ask Trump, via video conference, whether he accepts responsibility for his crimes; they will assess his finances (and his mental health); they will consider his family life and ties to community; and they will want to know whether the presumptive Republican nominee continues to associate with criminals.

“There’s nothing wrong with his telling the probation office, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong, and I’m not admitting guilt, and I’m planning on appealing,’” Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor, told MSNBC. “Every defendant has a right to do that.”

More difficult, Weissmann said, will be the question about whether Trump’s still “associating with criminals.”

“He’s going to have to discuss whether he still coordinates with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon. Remember, all those people have been found guilty by a jury and are felons themselves,” Weissmann noted.

But as for Stone, he’s been “a frequent presence at Mar-a-Lago lately,” Axios reported in March, noting that he attended “Trump’s victory party there on Super Tuesday.”

Going forward, such a celebration could land Trump behind bars himself.

Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney who teaches law at the University of Michigan, told MSNBC that the terms of probation that Trump will likely have to comply with may prove difficult. A prohibition on associating with other convicted felons, typical in cases of other offenders, would in particular “be challenging for him.”

“But if he’s not willing to comply with those kind of conditions, his alternative is prison,” McQuade said. Given his other legal troubles, and his repeated contempt violations in the hush money case, it’s possible he’s headed that way regardless. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would at least be justified in requesting it, according to McQuade.

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