Ben Shapiro: Trump's polling may be helped if he is imprisoned
Shapiro: “Separating Donald Trump from Truth Social and putting him behind bars might weirdly remove him from the stage”
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From the April 3, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): The media are attempting, because Joe Biden is losing, to generate more headlines about Donald Trump. The problem is that the headlines are kinda more of the same. Now, the headline they're truly hoping to generate is the headline Trump goes to jail. That's what the media are desperately wishing for at this point, which is presumably why Andrew Weissman, a former prosecutor, is suggesting — former FBI general counsel and federal prosecutor — is suggesting that Donald Trump could get jail time if he's convicted, criminally, for falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. That trial is slated to begin April 15th in Manhattan. Presumably, it's gonna take a few weeks for it to go forward, and then, presumably, he will be convicted because this is New York. And then, presumably, a judge might try to sentence him to jail time. So you could pretty easily see a situation in which Donald Trump is actually running for the presidency from a jail cell. Now, is that going to hurt Donald Trump in the polling data? Not if this is the — I have a feeling that if it looks like a politically motivated case to jail your political opponent, that might actually backfire on Democrats pretty badly. And, ironically — I mean, truly ironically — separating Donald Trump from Truth Social and putting him behind bars might weirdly remove him from the stage. I mean, it — this is — it's an unprecedented situation.