RNC Prepar­ing For Pos­si­bil­i­ty Of Trump Being In Jail Dur­ing Con­ven­tion

Orga­niz­ers for the GOP nation­al con­ven­tion next month in Mil­wau­kee are prepar­ing for the pos­si­bil­i­ty that for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump will be in jail when he receives the party’s nom­i­na­tion, accord­ing to Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee (RNC) Chair­man Michael What­ley.
Judge Juan Mer­chan has sched­uled sen­tenc­ing for the mid­dle of July — four days before the start of the Repub­li­can con­ven­tion — after a jury returned a guilty ver­dict on all counts last week in Trump’s hush-mon­ey tri­al in New York.
What­ley told News­max on Tues­day that RNC offi­cials “expect” Trump to be in Mil­wau­kee to accept the nom­i­na­tion, but are “work­ing on” a plan for if he is in jail. “We will make what­ev­er con­tin­gency plan­ning we need to make for it. But the fact is, he is going to be our nom­i­nee and he is going to be the 47th pres­i­dent of th …