Breaking News: Former President Trump says he has been indicted
(www.foxnews.com)
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I agree that Trump won't serve jail time, but not for those reasons.
If "looking bad" was an issue, they wouldn't even go as far as pressing charges. And plenty of ex-presidents around the world have been imprisoned - admittedly a lot of them are in basket-case countries, but Sarkozy, ex-president of France, is one recent high profile example.
The SS detail would surely be scrapped if he's in jail. There's probably no precedent for that scenario, but I doubt if that detail would keep a president out of jail if they really did commit a serious crime (and I'm not saying Trump did, BTW, just in principle).
The SS detail can't be scrapped. It's simple as that. They're not there just to keep the former presidents safe. They also have to monitor who comes in contact with the former presidents, and what information passes between them. That is to protect the classified information that former presidents know, so the US won't be put into danger.
You do have a valid point about appearances, though.
How does the SS detail work exactly? Not arguing against what you're saying, just would like to understand. Like, does Trump have people monitoring him 24 hours a day? And same for all other former Presidents, Obama, Bush, Carter?