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Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Donald Trump faces four criminal indictments in three separate jurisdictions.

Nearly 100 felony criminal charges have been levelled against the former president, who remains the odds-on favourite to win the nomination to be the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential candidate.

As his legal battles grow more complex by the day, a serious question has emerged: what happens if Mr Trump wins the nomination and campaigns for the general election as a convicted criminal?

That possibility, in turn, raises another simpler question: could the 45th president of the United States go to prison?

Between his 91 felony counts, Mr Trump faces a total of roughly seven centuries in total jail time, spread between dozens of various charges of differing seriousness.

Obviously Mr Trump is not going to be sealed inside a federal penitentiary for all of eternity but the increasingly wide range of actions for which he is now being prosecuted is slowly chipping away at the likelihood that he will evade the inside of a cell forever.

The ruling by a federal appeals court on 6 February that he is not entitled to immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while he was in office dealt a serious blow to his bid to evade criminal charges.

Here, we take a look at the four prosecutions Mr Trump currently faces and how each affects his chances of campaigning behind bars this year.

Thefirst indictment to drop against the former president deals with conduct committed the longest ago.

Mr Trump was accused by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg last April of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, a felony under New York state law, in order to conceal “hush money” payments allegedly made on his behalf to porn star Stormy Daniels

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