Trump Would Have To Serve 5 Years In Prison BEFORE He Could Be Pardoned In Georgia

Because the governor of Georgia does NOT have the power to pardon people convicted of crimes, the only hope that Donald Trump would have of being pardoned would be with a state pardon board. And unfortunately for Trump, there are strict legal requirements. For example, he will have to serve 5 years of his sentence before he can even make a request to be pardoned - and the RICO charges that he was hit with carry a minimum penalty of 5 years in jail. Fani Willis knew exactly what she was doing, as Farron Cousins explains.

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So now that Trump has been indicted in Georgia, right? The last shoe to drop out of all the Trump indictments, everybody is speculating on what he could be looking at in terms of prison. And because of that, everybody's also wondering, is Trump gonna get pardoned by somebody? Well, I've talked about this in the past, but I think we need to go into obviously a little bit deeper detail. Uh, because Georgia, the state of Georgia, is one of four states in the nation where the governor does not actually have pardon power. So Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of the state of Georgia, could not pardon Donald Trump even if he wanted to. And based on his post on social media yesterday calling out Trump's election, lies again, doesn't seem like Brian Kemp would want to do that. Instead, the state of Georgia has a pardon board made up of people appointed by the governor.

So it's conservative. Sure. But that board is who makes the determinations on who gets a pardon and who does not. But Georgia law is a little tricky because you can't just, okay, well, I've been convicted. Hey, pardon? Board, come on, throw me one here. No, no, no. The law in Georgia actually says you have to serve five years of your sentence before you can even petition the pardon board to give you a pardon. And coincidentally, right, the five years, you have to wait before you can get a pardon. See, the RICO charges that Fannie Willis has hit Donald Trump with, they actually carry a minimum sentence of five years. Meaning that if Donald Trump is convicted in the state of Georgia, he will spend no less, no less than five years in prison. You cannot overcome the mandatory minimum. So Trump would be going to a Georgia State Prison, most likely for at least five years, and then he would be able to petition that pardon?

Board. So he has to wait the five years before the petition and Fanny Willis hit him with charges that carry a minimum of five years. Now, that is a hell of a coincidence, but I do think it's a coincidence, right? I mean, she didn't pick that just because of the five year minimum and the five year minimum wait time. She did it because, you know, there was conspiracy here. There were many players involved and you needed to get everybody, and Ricoh is the best way to do that. But I do find it hilarious. I've gotta say, I'm not gonna lie, I think it is absolutely hilarious that Donald Trump is finally in a heap of trouble and there's nothing he can do about it. It doesn't matter who wins the White House in 2024, even if it's Trump, because even if that were to happen, he'd have to serve from jail. I mean, that's probably not

Gonna look too good on the United States in the eyes of all of our foreign allies, right? Like, hey, we're having a G seven summit. Where's, where's America? Oh, that's right. He's in a prison cell. He couldn't be here. We'll have to connect to him via Zoom. So, you know, that's a possibility. I mean, that's the worst part. Like that is a real thing that could end up happening because he can't be pardoned. I mean, technically I do think the Georgia Pardon board does have certain powers where they can, in extreme circumstances intervene, um, based on what I've read. So I, I do think, obviously, if that were to happen, if Trump wins the election, I think the pardon board would be like, yeah, that's pretty much an extreme circumstance. Should we pardon him? But then they could still say, no. So who knows what could happen?

I, I think it's kind of safe to say at this point, everything's a little screwy and weird, right? A situation that we never thought we would be in as a country where the Republican front runner is definitely looking at, uh, based on all of the different jurisdictions, all the different charges, Trump's gonna be convicted of something somewhere. I mean, statistically, he's not gonna beat all these charges. 91 counts in four different indictments. Uh, maximum prison sentence looming out there of 712 years