18 U.S.C. 1001(a) provides for five years of imprisonment for each false statement made to the government. For someone who is not the President or a crony, prosecutions under the statute happen often without making it big news in the media.
To prevent prosecution, I had mentioned earlier that for Trump, winning this election might be more important than life and death, because he knows how many false statements to the government he has made and advice he must be getting from counsel regarding this. Trump has very little to lose by trying to violate more laws to try to stay in office, and he will try. However, if he sees that there is no chance of it working, there is a probability that he will flee.
I'm curious what folks think is the probability of that event, and the likely country he will flee to?
Because the presidency terminates on Jan 20, 2021 if he doesn't win the election according to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution (regardless of what Trump might say), he will probably try to flee before then. There is a possibility prosecutors might try to get an injunction from him being able to flee ahead of that.
Hold behold, Trump is now mentioning the same thing in public that he might leave the country if Biden wins, and articles are starting to pop up in media about several prosecutions having been stayed during the term of presidency.
