The former president said whether he fears going to prison during his interview with Kristen Welker.
Trump, who is running in the Republican presidential primary, sat down for an interview with NBC host Kristen Welker for his first broadcast network interview since leaving office in January 2021. The interview comes less than four months before the votes are cast in the Iowa caucus, the first nominating contest of the 2024 election.
The former president remains the frontrunner to win the 2024 presidential nomination despite a tumultuous summer, according to recent polls, which have found him securing support from many conservative voters as he’s widely expected to dominate the GOP primary next year. Trump has now been indicted in four separate criminal cases which span from his alleged attempts to thwart the 2020 election results, his retention of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and an alleged hush money payment made during his 2016 campaign. He maintains his innocence in each case.
Welker pressed the former president about whether he worries about the possibility that he could be sentenced to prison in any of his criminal cases, the trials of which are set to begin next year.
Trump responded by saying that he does not « even think » about that possibility, and that all he thinks about it is « making America great. »
« I don’t even think about it. I’m built a little differently I guess, because I have had people come up to me and say, ‘How do you do it, sir? How do you do it?’ I don’t even think about it, » he said.
Trump cast his charges as politically motivated, claiming that Biden « went to the attorney general of the United States, and he told them to indict Trump.
