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If Trump goes to prison after guilty verdict, Secret Service

would have to go with him
Trump was found guilty on all charges in a New York court this week
By Adam Shaw Fox News

Published June 1, 2024 2:22pm EDT

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Former President Trump was found guilty on felony charges Thursday, raising potential
challenges for the Secret Service responsible for protecting him just as a top Democrat is
seeking to yank that protection from him.

Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree
in New York v. Trump. The charges were related to alleged payments made ahead of the
2016 presidential election to silence pornographic performer Stormy Daniels about an
alleged 2006 extramarital sexual encounter with Trump. Trump denied all charges and any
affair with Daniels.

But the conviction raises the possibility the presumed 2024 Republican nominee could
end up being bars. That unprecedented development would raise a number of additional
questions, including how his Secret Service protection would adapt.

TRUMP CAMPAIGN WARNS BIDEN TO ‘BUCKLE UP’ AFTER HE'S RELEASED FROM
‘FREEZING’ COURT TO HIT CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Donald Trump arrives to Trump Tower Thursday, May 30, 2024, after being found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business
records in the first degree. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)

In a statement to Fox News Digital, the agency said the outcome of the case "has no
bearing on the manner in which the United States Secret Service carries out its protective
mission."

"Our security measures will proceed unchanged," Anthony Guglielmi, chief of

communications for the Secret Service, said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has previously said the city's Department of Corrections
and the Rikers Island prison in New York are "ready" to receive Trump.

Asked if Trump would be housed by himself or with the general population, a Department
of Corrections spokesman said last month, "The Department would find appropriate
housing for him if he winds up in our custody."

The New York Times reported that there had been conversations involving the Secret
Service and other law enforcement about how to move and protect Trump if he were
briefly jailed for contempt, but the challenge of a longer prison sentence has yet to be
addressed.

TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN NEW YORK CRIMINAL TRIAL

This could be in part because, even though the sentencing is in July, a series of lengthy
Trump appeals that could rise to the Supreme Court would likely follow.

A.T. Smith, a former deputy director at the agency, said that while the territory may be
uncharted, the Secret Service would not allow the mission to be compromised.

A Secret Service agent stands guard as former President Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a
campaign event at Big League Dreams Las Vegas Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. (David Becker/Getty Images)

"They’ll rise to the occasion. They will work with the counterparts that may become
necessary depending upon the judge’s decision ... in order to accomplish their mission,
which is the protection of the former president," he told The Telegraph.

One potential impediment to that protection could come from Democrats, who have
introduced a bill in the House to strip Secret Service protection from convicted felons
sentenced to prison.

CNN LEGAL GURU SAYS NEW YORK TRUMP PROSECUTORS ‘CONTORTED THE LAW,’
CASE WAS ‘UNJUSTIFIED MESS’

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security
Committee, introduced the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated
toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act.

"Unfortunately, current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact
the felony prison sentence of a protectee — even a former President," Thompson said in a
statement.

regrettable that
"It is it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could
become our reality."

An accompanying fact sheet said the bill deals with the possibility the logistics of Secret
Service protection would result in Trump getting home confinement rather than prison
time.

"This bill would remove the potential for conflicting lines of authority within prisons and
allow judges to weigh the sentencing of individuals without having to factor in the
logistical concerns of convicts with Secret Service protection," the document states.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign says it has been energized by the trial’s conclusion and is
confident that it takes him a step closer to reclaiming the White House.

"Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats confined President Trump to a courtroom for more
than eight hours a day for more than six weeks, and he’s still winning," Trump campaign
spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital. "Now that he is fully back on the
campaign trail, Biden and the Democrats better buckle up."

Leavitt told Fox News Digital Trump "generated billions of dollars in earned media
coverage throughout the trial, hosted massive rallies and impromptu campaign stops in
New York and beyond, increased his lead over crooked Joe Biden in the polls and raised
more money than Biden and the Democrats in the month of April. Not even a witch hunt
trial could slow him down. In fact, it only made him stronger."

Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo, Michael Dorgan and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border
security.

He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter .

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