American TV host calls for putting Trump in 'solitary confinement' if convicted

A TV host for a major US news network has called on-air for imprisonment in “solitary confinement” of former president and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump if he is convicted of multiple indictments against him to avert a “safety risk.”

"There's this issue...about whether or not you can put a former president with a Secret Service detail in a prison, I offered a solution the other day: put him in solitary confinement," MSNBC host Kaite Phang argued during her show on Sunday. "Then he won't have exposure to general population, and then he won't be a safety risk, a security risk."

"I think it's absurd to think that you cannot put somebody who ends up going through the process, who's convicted and sentenced, I think it's absurd that you'd put him in anything but a federal penitentiary where he deserves to be,” the Asian-American host further emphasized while insisting on equal treatment of all convicted individuals.

“Again, we do not treat him any differently than we'd do [for] any of us if we were prosecuted...and we were sentenced, and we were having to do the time. We should do it exactly where everyone else has to do it," she underlined.

Trump was arraigned in a Washington, DC court on Thursday pleading not guilty to the latest charges brought against him in his third legal indictment.

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With the former president now facing nearly 80 criminal charges, with the possibility of more by the end of the summer, many observers and legal experts have begun to speculate about how Trump might be held in prison if he's convicted without creating a safety risk, especially considering his round-the-clock Secret Service security detail as a former president.

Spokespersons for Trump’s office, meanwhile, have previously dismissed remarks by MSNBC hosts and contributors, citing the mainstream news network's reputation as liberal-leaning and tied to the ruling Democratic Party.

According to local press reports, however, few of the charges so far leveled against Trump would disqualify him from continuing to run his 2024 presidential campaign, without congressional intervention.

The hawkish and highly controversial ex-president has often insisted that he will continue running for office in November 2024 even if he is sentenced to imprisonment amid serious fears that such a ruling would enrage his right-wing Republican supporters and spark a violent uprising against Washington and the Biden administration.

Meanwhile, an opinion survey conducted last week by Reuters/Ipsos found that 52 percent of likely Republican voters would not vote for Trump in 2024 if he was convicted and imprisoned by the next Election Day, while 28 percent said that they would still vote for him.

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