Will Donald Trump be the first president to go to prison?
Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts on Thursday, each of which carries a potential four-year sentence. But legal experts interviewed by NOTUS said they wouldn’t expect Trump to serve time behind bars, in part because of the former president’s clean criminal history.
“It would be highly unlikely that Trump would actually be sentenced to state prison,” said former Watergate prosecutor Philip Lacovara. “It might be nothing more than home confinement with an ankle monitor that would keep him, at least if he’s not elected president, confined to his New York apartment.”