Irish Examiner view: Donald Trump's conviction as a felon has raised the stakes

Trump may now be musing about Eugene V Debs, the last US presidential candidate to campaign from inside a prison cell

Donald Trump sitting in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York before his guilty verdicts were handed down earlier this week. Picture: Victor J Blue/The Washington Post/AP

It’s a reasonable bet that many of us won’t be familiar with the name of American politician Eugene V Debs.

However, Donald Trump will know exactly who he was.