In an interview with Newsmax that aired Tuesday evening, the former president said “it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.”
Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized his conviction in New York and suggested that his political opponents might face similar prosecution, even as he also said it would be “terrible” to jail his former rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump made the comments Tuesday night on the conservative network Newsmax, days after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to an adult-film actress before the 2016 election. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, had falsely claimed in another recent interview that he never called for Clinton to be jailed.
“I said, ‘Wouldn’t it really be bad? … wouldn’t it be terrible to throw the president’s wife and the former secretary of state — think of it, the former secretary of state — but the president’s wife into jail?” Trump mused Tuesday on Newsmax.
“But they want to do it,” Trump said, appearing to refer to his opponents. “So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.
