If convicted, Trump Secret Service protection may rule out prison
Donald Trump can keep Secret Service protection for life, even if he were to be convicted and sentenced to prison or home confinement.
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Donald Trump can keep Secret Service protection for life, even if he were to be convicted and sentenced to prison or home confinement.
If convicted in any of the three criminal cases he is now facing, Donald Trump may be able to influence whether he goes to prison and what his stay there looks like under a law that allows former US presidents to keep Secret Service protection for life, some current and former US officials said.
Presidents since 1965 have been afforded lifetime protection. Since then, only Richard M. Nixon has waived it.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination against President Joe Biden, baselessly suggested Friday that the Biden administration is singling him out for rare treatment by denying him Secret Service protection.