The Judge is being very careful not to give Trump’s team the ability to have the judgement thrown out on appeal.

It’s going to be anyway. And if Trump gets another Trump-friendly panel of judges, they’re going to find a reason to throw the appeal out no matter what. I very seriously doubt “the defendant was jailed after violating a gag order and making threats against members of the court almost a dozen times” is going to be grounds for a mistrial in any courtroom that didn’t have their minds made up already. <coughCannoncough>

There’s also the consideration of when you jail a former President of The United States you then have to make accommodation for their Secret Service detail, which would preclude incarceration in anything but a private facility.

Then the Secret Service should have been making contingency plans for this scenario the second charges were announced. I understand they have a job to do and all that, but they’re also human beings with functioning brains. They should have damn well known that the chances of Trump being jailed are very real, and should have known that Trump isn’t going to abide by any court rulings if jail as a consequence is off the table. If the Secret Service hasn’t already figured out what they’ll do if Trump is jailed, then the Secret Service should be the ones with some explaining to do, because Secret Service protection shouldn’t mean that the person being protected gets to do whatever they want without consequence.