Appearing on NBC’s “Today” on Friday, attorney Joe Tacopina indicated there was “zero” chance Trump would accept such an arrangement, the Washington Times reported.

“President Trump will not take a plea deal in this case. It’s not gonna happen,” he said. Reports emerged Thursday that a Manhattan grand jury had voted to indict the former president in connection with District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation of a 2016 hush money payment that Trump’s then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, made.

[Why would it? Trump wants the circus, clearly. Even if this survives a dismissal motion and he gets convicted, he won’t get jail time, and an appellate court will have to toss it out anyway. There’s no reason for Trump to seek a plea deal. *Bragg*, on the other hand … — Ed]