Legal expert Ray Brescia, the author of Lawyer Nation, told Newsweek that Judge Juan Merchan, overseeing the criminal trial Trump is currently facing, is likely to just send the former president to jail.

Instead of imposing more fines — which Merchan has already done for Trump’s violations of the preemptive gag order Merchan imposed, Brescia says the more likely outcome in the future is incarceration.

“It is likely the last time the judge will give the former president that kind of penalty. If Trump clearly violates those orders in the future, the judge has little recourse but to require the former president to serve some jail time for such infractions.”

An astute observation.

Trump clearly not only violates gag orders, but flouts his ability to do so. He is constantly pushing limits, seeing what he can get away with. He engages in “stochastic terrorism” more than anyone you’ve ever seen.

“The integrity of the judicial process is at stake at this point, and the judge has shown significant and fair restraint up to this point. But I would imagine even he will have his breaking point,” Brescia said.

Despite the fact that prosecutors have now brought even MORE allegations of Trump violating the gag order, Brescia opined that Judge Merchan likely would not jail Trump for things that he’s said in the past, even if they were recent and pertinent to this trial.

But given the fines so far AND the new allegations, Brescia says, the likeliest outcome of future violations is jail time.

That would make him the first former president in history to go to jail. Sure, we’ve had a couple of candidates campaign while they were locked up — Eugene V. Debs was jailed for being a socialist back in the 30s, and got a million votes anyway, which was a lot then — but Trump might literally running for president as a former president from prison.

That’s legendary, and not in a good way.

In the meantime, Trump ridiculously still contends he didn’t have affairs with either Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougal, despite both of them having provided descriptions of his penis.

Maybe the fact that everyone knows he’s guilty in this criminal case is why he can’t keep his mouth shut.