Source:CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins interviewing former FBI Director James Comey.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former FBI director James Comey weighs in on whether former president Donald Trump should receive a jail sentence after a guilty verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial.”

From CNN

At severe risk of breaking no news whatsoever: (which is not different from when CNN announces CNN Breaking News) I’m not even a lawyer, let alone a New York City lawyer. So I’m not going to predict whether or not Judge Juan Merchan will sentence Donald Trump to jail or not, or even to home confinement. But I agree with Jim Comey that Donald Trump is begging Judge Merchan to sentence him to jail.

Imagine someone whose been in prison for 40 years and is now getting paroled or their sentence is over. But they’ve been in prison for so long, never even driven a car, gotten a traditional high school education, never voted, never held a legitimate job outside of prison, and they’re scared to death of being released to the outside world. So they do everything that they can to avoid being released from prison. That’s kind of what now Convicted Felon Don is doing here, but in reverse:

“Judge, you have to send me to jail. Life’s is too scary on the outside. I keep getting sued. I’m always at risk of bankruptcy. I keep getting charged with new crimes. I need a break from this madness. Judge, send me to jail for my own good.”

Donald Trump has obviously never said what I just wrote. But, the way he keeps lying about his own case and his own guilt here and putting people who were involved in this case, lives and security at risk, by attacking them in public, sends a strong, violent message to his militants that they need to do something here to protect him. If you are Judge Juan Merchan, you have to take all of that very seriously and into account, before you impose sentence on him.