GOP planning convention ‘contingencies’ in case Trump is jailed during nomination
ByJon Levine
Published June 8, 2024, 8:53 a.m. ET
Republican grandees are planning “contingencies” in the event former President Trump is incarcerated after his sentencing next month, officials and insiders say.
Trump will be sentenced by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on July 11 after he was convicted of 34 felony counts stemming from hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Merchan has a buffet of possible sentences he could impose on the presumptive GOP nominee — including prison time.
The Republican convention in Milwaukee is scheduled to begin on July 15.
“I was at a dinner where that question was asked by a donor and RNC staff said that there were contingency plans in place,” said one Trump fund-raiser, who said party officials declined at the time to get into details. “My understanding is Trump could [accept the nomination] from wherever. Does he physically need to be there? I don’t think so.”
One recently-departed official from the Republican National Committee told The Post “my suspicion of what you do if the guy is actually in jail — which who knows, right — I think you probably have him do some kind of video in advance just in case.”
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