RNC Planning For Trump To Be In Jail For Convention

Michael Whatley, the chair of the Republican National Committee, believes that there's a good chance their nominee - convicted felon Donald Trump - will be behind bars during their convention, and he went to Wisconsin this week to work out those logistics. It really tells us something that the Party would rather work out how to have a nominee behind bars instead of simply picking another person to run for President. But that's why Trump wanted to take over the Party, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So the Republican Convention, as everybody knows, is going to take place four days after Donald Trump's criminal sentencing on July 11th. And apparently the folks at the RNC aren't exactly super confident that their nominee is not going to be in jail by the time that convention rolls around. So, RNC chair, Michael Watley, had to head up to Milwaukee to work out the logistics of what they could do if their nominee is sitting in a jail cell during the convention. here is what Michael Watley told Newsmax when they asked him, you know, Hey, what if he's jailed? He says, yeah, we're working on that right now. I'm, I'm actually going up to Milwaukee this week, and we're going to have a series of conversations, a series of conversations, not just one conversation, but a series of them. 'cause apparently it's a big deal. But he continued.

We accept that Donald Trump is going to be in Milwaukee, and he's going to be able to accept that nomination. And if not, we'll make whatever contingency planning we need to make for it. But the fact is, he's going to be our nominee and he's going to be the 47th president of the United States. You know, we'll cross that bridge, but you sort of have to go into this stuff as we certainly will be planning on it. We'll be thinking about it, and we're working on that right now. But what we want to do is we want to have a show that is going to roll out Donald Trump and his vision for America, which is going to set up this election cycle. And we may have to do it via Zoom again, because, you know, he could be in jail. Um, so first of all, let's lay out a couple possibilities here.

It's not necessarily that Donald Trump could be in jail. He could be under house arrest. In which case, why not just move the convention tomorrow? Lago, right? I mean, that's where it'll be. Just do it there. There's plenty of space. He would love the money anyway, that would make him happy. But even if Trump gets sentenced to house arrest or jail, typically the sentence does not begin immediately. Like right at that moment, like Donald Trump is not going to leave that courthouse, even if he gets jail time, which is, you know, very unlikely. But even if he does, he's not gonna leave the courthouse in jail. The judge will say, here is your sentence, and your sentence begins on this date. So Trump will not be under house arrest and he will not be in jail when that convention rolls around. That's just not going to happen. And if it does, you know, that's probably not a good thing, would leave it open for a very easy appeal. So that's the realistic possibility there. But I also wanna point out something here. There's a reason why Donald Trump installed his two cronies, Michael Watley and his daughter-in-Law, Laura Trump as the head of the RNC. Because any normal person running the Republican party right now would not be saying, Hey, I gotta go to Wisconsin and try to work out the logistics. If my guy's in

Jail, a normal person wouldn't do that. A normal person would be saying, Hey, I'm gonna go to Wisconsin and work out the logistics on how we're gonna nominate somebody else that's not gonna face the possibility of jail. Right? Because that's the obvious solution. Like, oh no, our nominee in jail. Wonderful.