FBI Director Fired By Trump Gets To Game Out Where Trump Will Go To Prison On CNN

Former FBI Director-turned-CNN analyst Andrew McCabe got to game out where ex-President Donald Trump will go to prison — the same Trump who carried out years of attacks on McCabe that culminated in his firing.

The jury in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial returned “guilty” verdicts on all 34 felony counts Thursday, making Trump the first ex-president to become a convicted felon — and the first presumptive presidential nominee to earn that distinction.

Judge Juan Merchan is set to sentence Trump on July 11, and could impose fines and a prison sentence or probation.

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, host Anderson Cooper asked McCabe how sending Trump to prison would work, given complications like the Secret Service:

COOPER: If the former president is actually sent to prison, seems unlikely given traditional sentencing this, but who knows. For the Secret Service, how do they work that?

MCCABE: I think it’s an unlikely result as well, although not impossible. You look at him not as a former president, but just as a simple defendant. He’s shown absolutely no remorse to attack the system and the result from the beginning days. That’s not a good way to approach your sentencing.

As far as the service is concerned, they’re — the hardest part for them will be in preparation because obviously they’ve never done anything like this before. But if he’s given some sort of confinement sentence, whether that’s home confinement or into some sort of an institution, once he’s there and they have that set up, it’ll be pretty easy for them because of being in a controlled space.

COOPER: In terms of the — his security though, I mean, Secret Service — in the courtroom, he had like two Secret Service agents with him. It was court officers.

MCCABE: Right.

COOPER: In a prison setting, I guess he would — I mean, it would be the prison officers, but also a few Secret Service or?

COOPER: You know, I find it almost impossible to believe that he’ll ever be in a traditional prison sentence, a traditional prison environment. He may be sentenced to some sort of a state controlled facility that doesn’t have other prisoners in it.

No matter where he ends up, if it’s in a state facility, it’ll be some combination of prison officials and, of course, Secret Service.

COOPER: Andrew McCabe, thank you very much.

Trump fired McCabe just days short of his retirement in 2018, but McCabe won a lawsuit that erased the firing and ruled he be reinstated to a retirement in good standing.

Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.