Trump could also be sentenced to home confinement amid his re-election campaign, which would keep him from the campaign trail, but could involve holding fundraisers from his Mar-a-Lago home or one of his other residences.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said earlier this month that New York City's Rikers Island is prepared if Trump was ordered to jail.
"Our amazing commissioner… is prepared for whatever comes on Rikers Island," Adams told the media earlier this month, when presiding Judge Juan Merchan threatened jailing Trump if he continued violating a gag order.
Trump is still entitled to Secret Service protection regardless of a potential prison sentence, meaning the federal law enforcement agency would have to coordinate with the department of corrections.
"I don't think anybody knows what that would look like, God forbid that happens," Louis Gelormino, a Staten Island defense attorney, previously told Fox News Digital of what a prison sentence could look like.
Gelormino added that before Trump is sentenced, a probation officer will have to interview him for a pre-sentencing report for presiding Judge Juan Merchan. The report, which can take weeks to create, would provide a bio of Trump, as well as recommend a sentence for the 45th president. The report will be shared with the judge, prosecutors and the defense team. Merchan is not required to abide by the recommended sentence.
Trump’s support among voters has not been swayed by the trial, according to recent polls. A recent New York Times poll found Trump is leading President Biden in a majority of key battleground states, including Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Arizona. Trump also held a massive rally in historically blue New Jersey over Mother’s Day weekend that drew an estimated 100,000 people, as well as another campaign event in the Bronx that drew thousands of supporters.
