Trump probation interview set for Monday after hush money conviction

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-probation-interview-monday-hush-money-conviction-rcna156219

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  1. >The Trump defense team is scheduled to submit their sentencing recommendation on June 13.

    I can only imagine the unrealistic joke submission they’re going to give.

  2. >Trump could also be asked if he is associating with anyone with a criminal record because he cannot associate with them if he is placed on probation

    Interactions with Stone, Chesebro, Ellis, Powell, Bannon, Weisselberg, or anyone else that has been convicted or plead guilty to this point are violations of his probation if he goes that route.

    More if more are convicted, these are just the already guilty ones that come to mind.

  3. >…The **probation interview** is required by the court as part of the former president’s **pre-sentencing report**…

    >The Trump defense team is scheduled to submit their sentencing recommendation on June 13…

    >The former president is **scheduled to be sentenced for all 34 felony counts in New York on July 11**, days before the Republican National Convention begins…

    >Horn noted that the typical purpose of a probation interview is to obtain information on Trump’s social and criminal history, financial resources, history of mental health, physical or addiction issues as well as to assess his living situation…

    >Trump could also be asked if he is associating with anyone with a criminal record because he cannot associate with them if he is placed on probation, Horn said. The probation officer may also want to interview others in Trump’s home afterward. Although officers typically fulfill their inquiries in one session, there could be follow-up interviews. The probation officer will then write a report and deliver it to Merchan.

    >The former president is facing anywhere from probation to up to four years in prison…

  4. > the Trump defence team

    Team? No, Donald will be submitting his recommendation.

  7. God will they stop calling it the fucking hush money trial. He falsified records, it was fraud

  8. “Shut him up” is maybe more important than “lock him up”.

  9. It just makes me smile knowing that he is completely fucking embarrassed and emasculated by this whole process. Being forced to go through the motions, powerless to do anything about it. Having his fate in the hands of someone else who actually knows what the fuck theyre doing. Its an iota of justice for his life of crime.

  10. Last I knew NY drug tested every convict on probation at least once. Should be interesting.

  11. Why though? He hasn’t been sentenced to probation or anything yet.

    Answer: The probation interview is required by the court as part of the former president’s pre-sentencing report.

  12. he wasn’t convicted of “hush money”… nobody can be convicted of “hush money”

    he was convicted of FRAUD and ELECTION INTERFERENCE

  13. “Trump could also be asked if he is associating with anyone with a criminal record because he cannot associate with them if he is placed on probation, Horn said.”

    Well, that would be everyone he knows so…

  14. I dearly hope he’s treated just like every other person in his situation

  15. Image a President with an ankle bracelet and a probation officer.

  16. Everything associated with Donald Trump stinks to high holy hell. Especially his diaper.

  17. I hope he gets the same kind of ball busting P.O. I’ve had before.

  20. Trump will have them submit a Get Out of Jail Free card that he crudely created with a large crayon.

  22. For the sake of the safety of witnesses and their families, the gag order should remain in effect for the duration of his probation.

    Even if he gets a short sentence in jail, he should get a very long probation, like maybe 10 years.

    Also, there is nothing wrong with taking threats to the judge and prosecutor into account in sentencing, and to add thier names to the gag order.

    I would only find it amusing, if he were to get a year in jail after he was released on probation, for threats made after release from the incarceration part of his sentence.

  24. Probation for 34 felonies would be a miscarriage of justice.

  25. I am guessing his attorneys will have him a straitjacket and ball gag for this appearance.

  26. Far right NBC says:

    “Blanche, Trump’s lawyer, will be present to ensure no questions put his client in legal jeopardy, ”

    It’s not the questions that put him in legal jeopardy, ITS HIS ANSWERS.

  27. Worth noting his lawyer, Todd Blanche, will be present which is very unusual, specifically to ensure Trump doesn’t admit to other crimes during the probation interview.

  28. After *fraud* conviction.
    Can we call it what it was?

  29. For fucks sake, stop calling it the “hush money” trial.

    It was ELECTION INTERFERANCE. Hush money is 100% legal. Doing it and hiding it as legal fees was the illegal part, in furtherance of a crime: interfering with federal elections.

  30. There going to say he’s to mentally unstable. To unhealthy and to delicate for jail.

  31. That requirement not to associate with anyone with a criminal conviction is huge. Have you seen his advisers criminal history?

  32. Do they evaluate whether probation candidates are flight risks? He’s a massive flight risk.

    No job, no stable relationship, in line for several more criminal trials, owes the government a half billion, possesses highly valuable information related to national security, owns an airplane and overseas properties.

  33. His defense team is going to propose paying a fine and that’s it. No jail time, no house arrest, no probation. And they’ll argue that he has no prior record, completely ignoring the 50 some odd other indictments he’s currently facing.

    I hope the judge throws the book at him simply for all the shit he said during and after the trial. He has shown zero remorse for anything.

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