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    Donald Trump Suggests Pleading Guilty If DOJ Will 'Pay Me Some Damages,'   
   Apparently Teeing Up Insanity Defense   
   Trump seems to think the government is in the practice of paying people to go   
   to prison.   
      
   Donald Trump took some time out of trying to find someone — anyone — admitted   
   in Florida willing to represent him in his federal criminal case to talk to   
   the folks at Politico about his plan to keep running from prison if need be.   
   Hey, Lyndon LaRouche did it! Trump’s take on the indictment touched a lot of   
   the standard talking points — sweating that he didn’t do anything wrong… some   
   garbage about the inapposite Presidential Records Act… insults for the   
   prosecutors — but buried in the wreckage of this train wreck was this gem…   
      
       Trump predicted he would not be convicted and said he did not anticipate   
   taking a plea deal, though he left open the possibility of doing so “where   
   they pay me some damages.”   
      
   Ah, yes. That famous practice of paying defendants to plead guilty! Trump   
   doesn’t have a crackerjack legal team at this point, but in the off chance   
   he’s reading this, when a defendant agrees that they will go to prison “if   
   you make it worth my while,” the “worth my while” part is not cash, it’s   
   slightly less prison.   
      
   These comments suggest Trump thinks he’s looking at the federal equivalent of   
   a parking ticket. Which may well be the product of incredibly dumb people in   
   his echo chamber pretending that this is a Presidential Records Act case even   
   though it would cease to be that somewhere around the point that he started   
   showing Kid Rock national security secrets and talking to his lawyers about   
   pretending he didn’t have these documents. Allegedly.   
      
   Far from a federal misdemeanor, Trump’s looking at hard time for these   
   charges. The sentencing guidelines are not mandatory — and in the unlikely   
   event Judge Aileen Cannon stays on this case and allows it to reach the jury   
   she could blow off the sentence entirely — but just an individual 18 U.S.C. §   
   793(e) charge in the indictment would net Donald Trump 210 to 262 months of   
   prison time, which is upwards of 22 years. Just Security notes that with an   
   acceptance of responsibility — which no one expects to see — Trump can get it   
   knocked down to 151 to 188 months. Other charges in the indictment offer   
   lighter base sentences, but the point remains that   
      
   Maybe he’s thinking about the Central Park 5 case that Trump infamously threw   
   himself into. After stirring up the racist frenzy with a full-page ad   
   demanding the death penalty for the ultimately innocent defendants. The city   
   ultimately paid the defendants millions to make up for the confessions law   
   enforcement bullied out of them. Perhaps in Trump’s mind this is the model   
   for a confession, though he’s skipping over the years spent wrongfully   
   confined in prison and the actually innocent part of securing a cash   
   settlement.   
      
   Is there an insanity defense to — let’s see here — espionage?   
      
   The answer is no. But until Trump finds himself a lawyer willing to take on   
   this case, there doesn’t seem to be anyone willing to tell him that.   
      
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