Wow !!! - Judge Chutkan faces call to seize Trump's passport after threat to flee to Venezuela

[jmowreader]

54. Let's inject a little reality here

Trump owns an airliner that can fly 4500 miles on one tank of gas, and Venezuela has a corrupt dictator who likes him. He could easily fly down there and have Venezuelan citizenship bestowed on himself by said dictator. Not having a passport isn't going to affect him.

Only slapping his happy ass in a cell until his trials are over is going to stop him from fleeing the country - and if he's found guilty in the DC or Georgia trials the judge needs to remand him into custody before sentencing as he is a major flight risk.

Otherwise we wind up with a replay of Winston Shrout. Winston Shrout is a sovereign citizen who was a big name in the tax protester ecosystem. After a judge sentenced him to ten years in federal prison for passing over 300 fictitious "international bills of exchange" that were supposedly worth $100 trillion and was given time before reporting to get his affairs in order, he...just disappeared thanks to his legion of supporters. It took a couple years for the government to get him back. Trump has way more supporters than Winston Shrout did and they're more violent.