Former federal prosecutor Doug Burns commented Friday on Newsmax after Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing date on President-elect Donald Trump’s case days before his inauguration.
Merchan ruled that there is “no legal impediment” to sentencing Trump before inauguration and mandated his appearance in court on Jan. 10. During an appearance on Newsmax’s “Carl Higbie: Frontline,” Burns slammed Merchan’s decision and called it a “disgrace.”
“We said over and over and over that it was an absolutely ridiculous case. But Carl, not only is he not receiving jail time, he’s receiving no probation. Make sure you understand that. The sentence is gonna be what we call a conditional discharge, which is no probation at all. And you just leave the building, setting up the obvious sarcastic, rhetorical question,” Burns told Higbie after the host said Trump shouldn’t…
