Donald Trump may dodge jail when sentenced but could be ordered to pick up litter with community service
DONALD Trump will probably avoid jail when sentenced — but may be ordered to pick up litter.
Experts predict a community service sentence as he has no record and his crimes were not violent.
The ex-president, 77, will learn his fate on July 11 after being convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying records to hide hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Trump’s lawyers are believed to be sure to file a plea for no jail time.
Criminal defence attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said he “did not expect” the billionaire tycoon would be locked up.
He believes that community service — including “picking up trash on the side of the road” — was a more likely outcome.
Meanwhile, Trump supporters registered their protests against the verdicts.
Many posted upside-down US flags online to symbolise the state corruption they claim swung the verdict.
Trump himself branded his trial “rigged” and called America a “fascist state” in a furious rant against Democrat rival Joe Biden.
Within hours of his conviction, donations to Republican Trump’s presidental campaign began flooding in at a rate of around £850,000 an hour.
Trump, the first US president convicted of a crime, plans to appeal against his conviction.
He is likely to face Biden in their second presidential election clash in November.
But a post-conviction poll found 49 per cent of independents and 15 per cent of Republicans said he should now end his White House bid.
Biden's a-head
JOE Biden wears an American football helmet on the White House lawn as he gears up for a bruising presidential clash with Donald Trump.
Biden, 81, tried on the Kansas City Chiefs’ headgear and joked that he’d like to emulate his guests’ back-to-back Superbowl wins by defeating his 77-year-old rival for the second time.