Alvin Bragg Plots To Imprison Trump After He Leaves Office at Age 82 — Is That Feasible or Fantastical?

The district attorney hopes for a four-year freeze — and then a prison sentence for what will be an octogenarian two-term president.

AP/John Minchillo
District Attorney Alvin Bragg at New York on April 4, 2023. AP/John Minchillo

In District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s dream world, the case is frozen for four years, and Judge Juan Merchan hands down a prison sentence to President Trump soon after he departs the White House in 2029. Judge Merchan on Friday indefinitely delayed sentencing to allow time to brief that plan.

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