Exclusive: Trump had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours to get maximum television ratings
  • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

    I think the biggest news we’ll get out if this is his actual weight being recorded instead of a clean bill of health by a fake doctor.

    • Neuromancer@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      That’s what they’re doing. That’s what happens when you turn yourself in. He will booked and processed then sent home.

      You don’t want him to stay in jail. That would be a nightmare for everyone involved. The secret service would have to be there. All his meals would have the catered in. He’d have to have a private room.

      Prison they can play for but the county jail would be overly taxing on everyone involved.

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        1 year ago

        All his meals would have the catered in.

        I’m sure there is a McDonald’s nearby secret service can fetch his meals from.

        • Hyperreality@kbin.social
          102·
          1 year ago

          Water would suffice for a few months given he’s obese. Probably do him a world of good too.

      • treefrog@lemm.ee
        8·
        1 year ago

        Why would his meals be catered?

        And jails have seg units. So a cell by himself isn’t hard Secret Service can stand outside the door.

        • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
          212·
          1 year ago

          They can’t trust that his food isn’t being tampered with. They have a duty to protect the president and that would mean making sure his food is safe.

          Just wait for the trial.

          • treefrog@lemm.ee
            9·
            1 year ago

            It’s not like your name is on your tray in jail so someone would have to poison the whole jail basically.

            And if they need to, the Secret Service can make him a damn ham and cheese sandwich.

            You really don’t have any idea what jail is like I take it? So I’m going to paint a picture. It’s not a resort. You don’t get your own food. You don’t get a room. You get a cell with a metal toilet with no ring and no lid. You get a metal sink and three trays of slop a day. That’s all that they’re required to provide.

            And if needed, jails are quite capable of segregating inmates in a single cell with 24 hour lockdown. Maybe with an hour out for rec by himself. If the jail is equipped for it.

            He’ll be quite safe. Uncomfortable and probably screaming like a baby until he tires himself out. But safe.

              • treefrog@lemm.ee
                1·
                1 year ago

                This article is mostly about the federal prison system. They may have different rules about segregation units. Minimum yard time, stuff like that. The article mentions movement and keeping a protective bubble around Trump, two issues that state prisons and county jails solve every day with extended segregation units when housing high profile prisoners. Yes, having Secret Service in the prison would make things a bit more complicated but much less so if Trump was in segregated housing.

                Not that I think extended seg time is a great way for anyone to spend their life. But this idea that Georgia can’t figure out how to put him in prison if they want to just isn’t true. It’s just not that complicated once you take movement and other prisoners out of the equation.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Donald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton county jail on Thursday evening on racketeering and conspiracy charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia, according to two people briefed on the matter.

    The former president – seeking to distract from the indignity of the surrender by turning things into a circus – in essence had his lawyers negotiate the booking to take place during the prime viewing hours for the cable news networks.

    Trump has posted on his Truth Social platform that he would be arrested on Thursday, but the prime-time scheduling was finalized in recent days after his lawyers met with the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, at her office on Monday.

    Trump returned to his instinct to maximize television ratings to his benefit for his surrender to authorities in Atlanta, the people said, and could extend the coverage of the proceedings by speaking afterwards in front of cameras and reporters.

    At the Rice Street jail north-west of downtown Atlanta, where defendants charged in Fulton county are typically taken, the booking process involves a mug shot, fingerprinting and having height and weight recorded.

    Trump could face major difficulties with that argument, however, since he would have to show that taking steps to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia amounted to him acting in his official capacity as president, legal experts have said.

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  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 year ago

    Makes sense to quash the Republican debate reactions. Even if someone breaks out it’ll be news for pretty much just Wednesday.

  • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
    61·
    1 year ago

    I have seen this on no less than 5 other instances and all i can say is: sttaaaaahp, I can only get so hard!