Mike Huckabee predicts Secret Service would file court motion to keep Trump from going to jail

Former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee predicted Wednesday that the Secret Service might file a court motion if former President Donald Trump is sentenced to jail. 

"If they're foolish enough to push this and actually try to incarcerate the president, which, I'm not sure – how do you do that when he's under Secret Service protection? Do they go with him?" Huckabee asked on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

"I think they would probably file some court motion and say, 'we cannot guarantee the ability to protect the former president as we are required by law to do if you put him in Rikers Island. You're not going to do it,'" he continued. 

A New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records during his 2016 presidential bid to conceal a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump, who also is the 2024 presumptive GOP presidential nominee, is the first U.S. president to be found guilty of felony crimes.

His sentencing date is July 11, just days before he is expected to be formally nominated at the Republican National Convention.

"In fact, if you look at the law about what the Secret Service obligations are, it would prohibit Judge Merchan – no matter how much he wants to – to put Donald Trump in incarceration," Huckabee said.