There’s no strategic reason to dodge this. All I can think of is he doesn’t want to pop positive for drugs.

Trump must ‘immediately’ schedule a pre-sentence interview with NYC probation. Playing hooky may add to his legal woes. (Business Insider (Business Insider, yesterday)

Moments after those 34 “guilties” rolled in on Thursday — making him the first former president convicted of a felony — Donald Trump was handed two copies of a standard New York City Department of Probation form.

Titled “Court Order for Investigation and Report,” it would have been quickly filled out by the judge’s clerk with Trump’s name, address, and the trial results, according to attorneys and court staff familiar with such documents.

And according to a copy of the standard form obtained by Business Insider, the bottom would read in all capital letters, “The defendant/respondent is instructed to report immediately to the department of probation” on the courthouse’s 10th floor.

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