Former President Donald Trump recently addressed the possibility of facing jail time under Judge Juan Merchan’s jurisdiction. In an interview with Fox News, he expressed his belief that a potential prison sentence would serve as a pivotal moment for his followers.
“The legal maze that you’re still facing, and they could, a judge could decide to say, hey, house arrest or even jail. It could be faced,” Fox News host Pete Hegseth said to the former president.
“I saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, oh, no, you don’t want to do that to the press. I said don’t, you don’t beg for anything,” he said.
“That could happen,” the former president said of the prospect of him being sent to jail.
“I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know, I don’t. I’m not sure the public would stand for it. I think I think it would be tough for the public to take, you know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point,” he predicted.
He also discussed the trial and shared his opinions on the way it was managed.
“It’s weaponization, and it’s a very dangerous thing. We’ve never had that in this country,” Trump said. “People get it. It’s a scam,” he said. “And the Republican Party… they’ve stuck together in this. They see it’s a weaponization of the Justice Department of the FBI and that’s all coming out of Washington.”
Additionally, he addressed the impact of the trial on his family, specifically his spouse, the former first lady Melania Trump.
“She’s fine, but I think it’s very hard for her,” he said. “She has to read all this crap. I think it’s probably in many ways, it’s tougher on my family than it is on me.”