If Trump Is Ever Convicted There Are Still Plenty Of Ways He Could Get Off Without Punishment

Even if Donald Trump is hit with more criminal charges and eventually convicted of those charges, there are still multiple ways in which he could be pardoned, depending on where the charges come from. For example, the Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, could choose to pardon Trump if he is convicted of state crimes, and if Trump wins the White House again, he could likely pardon himself. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins lays out the scary scenarios that could let Trump off the hook.

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I've had a lot of people ask me recently, mostly on Twitter, you know, if Donald Trump gets convicted of any of the crimes, like assuming a lot more indictments come out from both Georgia and the doj, if he gets convicted in New York at the federal level or in Georgia, doesn't that mean he can't run for president? Well, the answer to that is absolutely no. It does not mean that at all. There is nothing in the United States Constitution that prevents a convicted felon from running for office, any office. So if you meet the age and citizenship requirements, you can still run. Like literally Trump could run a presidential campaign from a prison cell. He could win the election, he could get the title and still be in prison. That's how not thought out. Our rules are here in the United States, but there's another avenue that people are starting to get concerned about, and I get a lot of questions about this.

What about the pardons? Well, luckily this week Politico actually put out a really great article explaining the multiple different ways that Donald Trump could in fact get pardoned for everything he is either being investigated for right now or has already been indicted for. And there's three different ways. The first way, of course, is if we get the federal charges and conviction, president Biden himself could pardon Donald Trump much like Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon, much like Jimmy Carter did for the, uh, uh, people who avoided the Vietnam draft. But those pardons cost those guys big time. And Biden, I don't think would really want to pardon Donald Trump. So I think that option we can pretty much say goodbye to, but we'll come back to it in a minute. The other possible pardons would be state level pardons. So if Trump is convicted in New York, the governor of New York could pardon him from those state crimes, and then he is off the hook.

Um, but the governor of New York is a Democrat, Kathy Hle. I, I don't think Kathy Huckle is going to pardon Donald Trump. So if we get a conviction in New York, I think those are pretty safe charges that are not gonna go anywhere. But things get a little weirder down in Georgia, not just legally, but things are a little bit weirder there. Um, in Georgia, they're controlled by Republicans. They've got a Republican governor, Brian Kemp. So couldn't Brian Kemp pardon Donald Trump for any charges he may be convicted of in the state? Actually, no, because the state of Georgia is a little bit different, little weirder, and this is actually weird in a good way because Brian Kemp does not get to pardon people. The state actually has a pardon board made up of people appointed by the Republican governor, but

He would have to petition that pardon board, and then that five panel board would have to vote on whether or not to pardon him. But he would not even be eligible for a pardon until five years after his sentence began. So even if he gets convicted in Georgia, he couldn't immediately apply for a pardon. He'd have to be in jail for five years or five years of house arrest before they would even hear his case to determine whether or not he gets pardoned. Now, the last potential one coming back to the federal level would be a presidential self. Pardon, which of course would only apply if Donald Trump made it back to the White House As it stands.