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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

Justice Department will ‘go for incarceration’ if Trump is convicted in classified papers case, lawyer says

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The Department of Justice is likely to attempt to have former President Donald Trump incarcerated if he’s convicted following the indictment laying out 37 charges against him in relation to his handling of classified national defence information.

National security lawyer and George Washington University law professor Kel McClanahan said that the department will probably “want to go for incarceration” in the case of Mr Trump, according to Insider.

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