Former federal prosecutor Thomas Dupree on Friday weighed in on how the election results could affect a late November sentencing in former President Trump's hush-money case.
“My view is that in New York, I don’t think a judge can sentence him to immediate prison time,” Dupree told NewsNation’s Blake Berman on “The Hill” on the topic of Trump retaking the White House in early November. “I don’t think he can be condemned constitutionally. [an] “Imprison the current or next President of the United States in solitary confinement.”
Trump's sentencing in the hush-money case was postponed Friday to Nov. 26, just weeks after Election Day. It had originally been scheduled for later this month.
Asked whether Trump might be barred from serving as president before the verdict, Dupree said: “Number one, it creates the possibility of at least some prison time, because, of course, it doesn't infringe on the power of the president-elect, the power to exercise the power of office.”
With about two months to go until the election, Trump is neck and neck with Harris in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona, according to The Hill/Decision Desk polling average, but The Hill/Decision Desk average of national polls has Harris leading the former president by 3.8 percentage points.
Ms Harris and Mr Trump are set to go head-to-head in a presidential debate hosted by ABC News next Tuesday night, the first in which Ms Harris is the leading Democratic candidate this season.
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