Donald Trump Could Face 6-9 Years Sentenced if Convicted of Jan 6 Charges, Former Lawyer Predicts

Donald Trump‘s former White House lawyer predicted a six to nine-year sentence if convicted of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

On Tuesday, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the former president. The indictment retained the same four criminal accusations but reduced some of the claims in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity decision last month.

Following the new filing, Ty Cobb, an attorney in the Donald Trump administration, spoke on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on Trump’s potential prison sentence.

“This is a powerful document…”You can’t read this without understanding the crimes that Trump committed,” Cobb added.

If convicted, Donald Trump, 78, could face up to 55 years in jail. Cobb did not expect to receive the whole sentence, but rather six to nine years in prison.

“Even six to nine, for someone his age, is very significant,” Burnett told me. She then asked Cobb, considering his relationship with Trump, what he thought the former president would do next.

“He won’t take this seriously until the final gavel comes down and the jurors come back and say, ‘guilty’ and he actually gets sentenced,” Cobb pointed out.

He anticipated that Trump’s lawyers will employ “a lot of delaying tactics” in this case, as they have done in previous cases.

Donald TrumpTrump condemned the supplemental indictment as “election interference” and a “act of desperation,” claiming it has all the issues of the previous one and should be thrown immediately.

Cobb also challenged Donald Trump Trump’s allegations, saying, “They’ve already said it’s the same indictment. Clearly it is not. They have previously stated that this should be dismissed immediately. “It will not be dismissed immediately.”

Smith stated that the superseding indictment “reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions” from the landmark July decision on presidential immunity.

Potential Consequences for Donald Trump

The court concluded that the president is “absolutely” free from criminal prosecution for activities arising from official duties in office, and that the president had “presumptive immunity” for acts occurring on the “outer perimeter” of official responsibilities.

Smith adjusted his argument around the ruling, removing several of the allegations in the initial lawsuit against Donald Trump, specifically the former president’s attempts to utilise the Justice Department to promote his election fraud claims.

Similarly, co-conspirator 4, thought to be former Justice Department officer Jeffrey Clark, is no longer listed.

“I think people who view this as a rescue or as some by retreat by Smith read this completely wrong,” Cobb reported.

He went on to say that if the Supreme Court eliminates a previously viable avenue, “it is smart to reverse course…”These are the same charges, and they are easily proven.”