If former President Trump is convicted of the seven charges leveled at him by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice, he could face as much as 100 years in prison.
According to ABC News, four separate counts that carry a potential prison time of 20 years each have been targeted at Trump: conspiracy to obstruct justice; withholding a document or record; corruptly concealing a document or record; and concealing a document in a federal investigation. Another charge, willful retention of national defense information, carries a possible sentence of 10 years, while scheming to conceal documents and false statements and representations each carry a possible sentence of five years apiece.
However, the likelihood of maximum sentences being imposed consecutively is remote, the network acknowledged.
“Any eventual sentence should Trump be convicted would likely be much lower,” the report noted.
Conservatives have decried the indictment of Trump, the current front-runner to challenge President Joe Biden in 2024, as an unprecedented act of partisanship by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“Merrick Garland is a mob lawyer. That’s what he is,” Fox News’ Mark Levin charged Thursday night. “Jack Smith is a rogue, Soviet-style prosecutor.” Jack Smith, the special counsel whom Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed last November, is supervising the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents.
Trump’s attorney, Jim Trusty, told CNN he had not received an indictment yet, but had received a summons, a “replacement for a warrant,” as indictments are usually accompanied by a warrant. He said the summons had “some language in it suggesting what the charges would be.”
“They basically break out from an Espionage Act charge, which is ludicrous, under the facts of this case … and several obstruction-based type charges and then false statement charges, which are actually, again, kind of a crazy stretch from the facts as we know it,” he added.
Trump, who broke the news himself when he took to social media to announce he had been indicted, insisted he is innocent and that Biden’s own classified documents scandal is being ignored by Garland.
“The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is ‘secured’ by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump said he is to appear in federal court in Miami Tuesday afternoon.
“I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country, and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election,” he wrote. “I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!”