Former President Donald Trump can still run for the White House despite facing a possible, although unlikely, prison sentence after being convicted in the NY v. Trump.
The jury found Trump guilty on all charges Thursday afternoon. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 11, four days before the start of the Republican National Convention.
“This was a rigged and shameful trial. The true verdict will be on November 5th by the people,” Trump said outside the courthouse on Thursday.
“This was a rigged decision from day one. With a conflicted judge who should never have been allowed to try this case. Ever. And we will fight for our Constitution. This is far from over.”
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Judge Juan Merchán presided over the New York trial against Donald Trump. (AP)
Trump can still run for the White House, as the Constitution does not place restrictions on presidential candidates based on their criminal records, but instead stipulates that those seeking the White House be natural-born citizens who are at least 35 years old.
Trump has not yet been sentenced in the case and prison time remains a potential, if unlikely, option. Trump's 77-year-old age, the fact that he is a first-time offender and that the charges are the lowest felonies in New York make it unlikely that the 45th president will face prison time.
However, if Trump is sentenced to prison, he would not be the first presidential candidate to offer the nation his vote from behind bars. Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs campaigned for the White House in 1920 from inside a federal prison after being convicted of sedition for opposing the United States' entry into World War I. President Warren G. Harding commuted Debs' sentence in December 1921.
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Trump could also be sentenced to home confinement in the middle of his re-election campaign, which would keep him off the campaign trail but could mean holding fundraisers at his Mar-a-Lago home or one of his other residences. .
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said earlier this month that New York City's Rikers Island is prepared if Trump is ordered to prison.
Republican presidential candidate former US President Donald Trump attends his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS)
“Our incredible commissioner… is prepared for whatever comes at Rikers Island,” Adams told the media earlier this month, when Chief Judge Juan Merchán threatened to jail Trump if he continued to violate a gag order.
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Trump is still entitled to Secret Service protection regardless of a potential prison sentence, meaning the federal law enforcement agency would have to coordinate with the corrections department.
A Secret Service agent and a security guard guard the Mar-a-Lago home of former US President Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, on March 31, 2023. (REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo)
“I don't think anyone knows what that would be like, God forbid,” Louis Gelormino, a Staten Island defense attorney, previously told Fox News Digital about what a prison sentence could look like.
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Gelormino added that before Trump is sentenced, a probation officer will have to interview him for a pre-sentence report for Presiding Judge Juan Merchán. The report, which could take weeks to produce, would provide a biography of Trump and recommend a sentence for the 45th president. The report will be shared with the judge, prosecutors and the defense team. Merchan is not required to serve the recommended sentence.
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Trump's support among voters has not been influenced by the trial, according to recent polls. A recent New York Times poll found Trump leading Biden in most key battleground states, including Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Arizona. Meanwhile, Trump held a massive rally in historically blue New Jersey over Mother's Day weekend that drew about 100,000 people, as well as another campaign event in the Bronx that drew thousands of supporters.
Fox News Digital's Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
