(The Epoch Times)—With former President Donald Trump facing the possibility of being sentenced to prison just days before the Republican National Convention, GOP officials are formulating backup plans in case the former president isn’t able to receive the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in person.
“We’ll be thinking about it, and we’re working on that right now,” Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley told Newsmax in an interview on June 4, when asked whether the Republican Party is preparing for the possibility that the former president can’t attend the convention because he’s behind bars.
The convention, which will take place in Milwaukee from July 15 to July 18, is expected to draw thousands, but President Trump might not be one of them, given his recent felony conviction and the possibility that, on July 11, Justice Juan Merchan will sentence him to prison.
President Trump was recently found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide nondisclosure payments, supposedly to prevent bad press and sway the 2016 election in his favor. He maintains his innocence and says he’s the victim of a vindictive political prosecution meant to derail his 2024 comeback bid.
Justice Merchan could sentence President Trump to up to four years on each business records falsification count, with a maximum of 20 years.
The former president said in a June 2 interview on Fox News that he could handle being jailed or imprisoned, while calling the people involved in his conviction “sick” and “evil.”
Trump Nominee No Matter What
The former president and his attorneys have vowed to appeal the conviction, with President Trump even calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to step in before the sentencing date and overturn the guilty verdict.
Although a former Manhattan district attorney predicted that President Trump would receive no prison time regardless of any appeals process, GOP officials say they’ll be ready to handle whatever scenario presents itself at the convention.
“We expect that Donald Trump is going to be in Milwaukee and he’s going to be able to accept that nomination,” Mr. Whatley said. “And if not, we will make whatever contingency planning we need to make for it.”
Although Mr. Whatley didn’t provide specifics about the contingency plans, he said the RNC will “certainly” have a plan in place to make sure President Trump receives the nomination no matter what.
“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,” Mr. Whatley said while expressing confidence that President Trump will become the 47th president when the Election Day dust settles in November.
In response to Mr. Whatley’s preparing for the possibility of President Trump virtually addressing the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Committee Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:
“Even before Donald Trump became a convicted felon, his inner circle was already staffed by a roster of convicts and fraudsters brought on board for their loyalty to Trump and his MAGA agenda over the rule of law. Now Trump’s hand-picked RNC chair is openly floating Trump calling into the convention from a jail cell because the Republican Party has become completely beholden to a criminal who is willing to undermine our justice system and our democracy to pursue his agenda of revenge and retribution.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the case against President Trump, has not indicated whether he will ask for a prison sentence.
President Trump’s lead attorney, Todd Blanche, said after the guilty verdict was handed down that it’s unlikely President Trump would be sentenced to prison given his age and that he is a first-time offender.
Trump attorney Will Scharf told ABC News on June 2 that the former president will “speedily appeal this unjust verdict.”
“I think this case is replete with reversible error,“ he told the outlet. ”We plan to vigorously defend President Trump’s rights in the appellate courts all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.”
‘Breaking Point’
President Trump was asked in the June 2 interview on Fox News for his thoughts about a possible punishment, which could include time behind bars.
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“I’m OK with it,” the former president replied. “I saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, ‘Oh no, you don’t want to do that to the president.’ I said, ‘You don’t beg for anything.’”
The former president also said he thought the American people would be outraged if he were imprisoned.
“I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” President Trump said. “I think it would be tough for the public to take; you know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
Asked what Trump supporters should do if the former president were imprisoned, RNC co-chair Lara Trump told CNN they would make their voices heard at the ballot box.
“Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5,“ she told the outlet. ”There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.”
While Democrats have taken to referring to President Trump as a “convicted felon” in their political messaging, a recent confidential memo to RNC leadership indicated that the conviction has had no negative effect on President Trump’s popularity among voters in the seven battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
An average of polls by RealClear Polling as of June 4 indicates that President Trump leads President Biden by 3.2 points in all seven swing states.
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Sleepy Joe is a felon many times over, but will never be charged since he’s protected by the same deep state actors who’d stolen the 2020 election and selected him to be their criminal puppet in the White House.
…no doubt that probably 100,000,000 Republican Voters would be happy to take the Nomination Papers to President Trump to what ever prison he would be vacationing at so he could sign them and get on with his ‘Make America Great Again’ Campaign…after all that’s the least we could do for him since he has done so very much for us…’BSTM’…’Blood-Sweat-Tears-Matter’…’TRUMP 2024′ !
Hell yeah.
“RNC Making Backup Plans” Shouldn’t this Headline correctly read “Anti-Trump Promoters CONTINUE with Their Plans to CONTROL We the People./” The evil forces in our country are so obvious in their relentless march to do away with our Constitutional Republic and control us.
To our sorrow, they already control us. It will take war to get it back. It’s like the old adage, you can always turn a no into a yes, but you can never turn a yes into a no. And for 60 years we have been giving casual consent for these democraps to run roughshod over this country.
RFK JR. was denied SS protection, and everybody knows that’s a strategy to 1.expose him to assassination, but 2.more likely, to exhaust his campaign funds.
Trump is no Ron Paul at all, and wants to have both his cake and eat it too on the toxic jab issue, but Biden .ca mp does not hide their phase 2 of the Obama plan to “fundamentally transform America” into a failed globalist state with no say for Americans.
I completely agree. I know what’s going on, however from reading the title you wouldn’t know that. That title needs to be changed to reflect what the article says NO MATTER WHAT…
That a contingency plan even has to be discussed shows what a tyrannical banana republic this country has become.
Trump WILL go to jail. God is taking him through the experience of Joseph in Egypt. Falsely accused, Joseph was thrown in prison, where God refined him until he was fully dependent on God. Then, he came out and saved Egypt.
…well spoken…Joseph while being a captive learned humility and perseverance are virtues that can not be ignored or dismissed,,,President Trump has the perseverance down pretty well but the humility may need a little attention…once an awkward is spoken…it some times comes back to bite you in the sitting down place…( ‘swift to hear…slow to speak’ )…’TRUMP 2024’…
RNC if Donald Trump is booted from the ticket for bogus corrupt lawfare charges…
The United States of America is over and you are on the menu having propped up Democrats pising as Republicans.
Let me guess….Neocon Nikki Haley is on deck. We can all smell the set-up a mile away.
Indeed. This is where the vile RINOs have been heading all along. The grossly unjust Trump trial could never have moved forward without the enthusiastic participation of BOTH halves of the ruling Uniparty…
I will not vote for anyone but Trump. Any other outcome would be a complete sham. US elections are the world’s most corrupt and the Democrats are proving this every day. The entire federal government is now involved in stealing the 2024 election.
The next stage before the “General Election” in November is to creat another “Arrestable Felony” offence specific to known GOP voters.
This offence will comprise one of many “Licensing” Felonies surrounding the as-yet un-announced new Presidential initiative to “Save the World” – the American Fresh Air and Breathing Rights Directive.
In this Directive, ALL Air flowing over, under or through the USA become the sole property of the United States Government who MAY issue “Breathing Permits” to suitable applicants.
Breathing either IN or OUT without first obtaining a Federal Government-Issued “Respiratory Approval Permit” will be FORBIDDEN, and any person – adult or child – of any of the now 579 Government approved sexes – caught Breathing without a Permit will – 1st be prevented from further breathing offences, and – 2nd be incarcerated in Government-Approved Air-Free accommodation prior to conviction ( trial-free ) .
You might think this is a Joke – but the Joke abides in The White House right now !