Thanksgiving Mailbag
Movies, TV Shows, Secret Service, and Hamas
Happy Friday readers. Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. I ended up getting six questions from you all, which is enough for a mailbag, but a pitiful percentage of our 22,000-plus member community here. C’mon, folks! Learn to live dangerously!
To compensate, I wrote excessively long answers to every question, so enough throat clearing, lets get right to it:
David: We can't send Trump to jail because... Secret Service? With what they pay, what stops the Secret Secret from hiring the best prison guards in the country to wear their badge and keep the ex-pres safely confined?
For those who aren’t familiar with the background controversy, the Washington Post got everyone all in a lather with an article a few months back suggesting Donald Trump may be ineligible for prison, even if he’s convicted of a crime, because the law provides him Secret Service protection.
As luck would have it (at least for me) I reviewed the laws governing post-presidency security detail a few years ago, mostly because the thought of Trump fleecing the public through his golf clubs even after he’d been booted from power repulsed me, and I wanted to know what the government’s theoretical recourse would be. Turns out, the whole premise seems completely wrong to me.