Former President Donald Trump suggested in an interview with Newsmax on Tuesday that Democrats may face prosecution in the future, following his own conviction in the New York criminal hush money trial. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for November, floated the idea that his prosecution could set a precedent for political opponents to be targeted.
“Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question,” Trump said. “And wouldn’t it be really bad like, as an example, Hillary with the hammering of her cellphones and all of the things she did, but wouldn’t it be terrible to throw the president’s wife and the former secretary of state — you think of it, the former secretary of state, but the president, the president’s wife, into jail?”
Trump continued, “Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing? But they want to do it. So, you know, it’s like it’s, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to. And it’s very possible that it’s gonna have to happen to them.”
Trump’s comments come after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts last week, related to falsifying business records as part of a hush money scheme during the 2016 campaign. He has said he plans to appeal the decision and has claimed that his legal problems have been orchestrated by President Biden and his administration, despite no evidence to support this claim.
Attorney General Merrick Garland called Trump’s rhetoric “dangerous” in remarks on Tuesday, warning against using the justice system for political revenge. Trump, however, has continued to suggest that he could use the justice system to target his political opponents if he is re-elected, including President Biden and his family.
“If elected, I would appoint a real special ‘prosecutor’ to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, Joe Biden, the entire Biden crime family, & all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders, & country itself!” Trump has said.
Despite this, he has tried to downplay the idea that he’s out for revenge, saying in recent months that “success” would be his ultimate retribution.
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So when he came in last time he chose the high-road, hoping the other side would do the same. This time he knows what they really are and what they deserve’ for goodness sake.
It would be appropriate to go “after them” not for revenge but to set the record straight and go after the REAL criminals! There is no way to after Joe Biden without the DemoRATS calling it revenge…but so be it! Let them call it revenge but there is so much proof that thBiden Crime Family together with the Clinton Crooks should be in JAIL, and for a LONG time.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland called Trump’s rhetoric “dangerous” in remarks on Tuesday, warning against using the justice system for political revenge.”
Like when Letitia James and Alvin Bragg wanted to be elected just so they can prosecute Trump?
Just like with nuclear weapons knowing that there’s mutual destruction is a deterrence against using such weapons,
Dems most know that by targeting, they will get targeted.
so that there is a deterrence to them weaponizing the courts against their political opponents
And the only way that they will know there is mutual destruction, is by you actually targeting them as opposed to just talking about it.
How does he know that by the time he hopefully gets into office, that biden will still be around?
Will he know which old age home to find him…?
“Attorney General Merrick Garland called Trump’s rhetoric “dangerous” in remarks on Tuesday, warning against using the justice system for political revenge.”
The level of “kol haPosel” and general chutzpah and sheker that we see is really unbelievable.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland called Trump’s rhetoric “dangerous” in remarks on Tuesday, warning against using the justice system for political revenge.”
And yet that is exactly what he has done. All of the various prosecutions were planned and coordinated at the White House, and it’s hard enough to believe that Garland wasn’t involved let alone that he didn’t know about it.
Sorry YWN, but this article is just parroting the cherry-picked side of the story being peddled by anti Trump media. Actually, Trump was pressured to clarify this point in an interview with Hannity (a day or two ago). He said that “it has to stop”, clarifying that he would have a right to go after opponents, but he did not do that with Hillary, and when re-elected, he would not do what the Demorats have been doing to him – because, as he repeated “it has to stop”.
Of course, anti-Trumpers pounced on the interview, snipping words out of context to claim falsely that he said the exact opposite of his actual clarification.
This is a clip. He was interviewed at length by Hannity and he said clearly that he plans to do no such thing. Stop taking what the Biden campaign feeds you as fact.
Mr. Trump is a leader and a man who kept his promises. Unlike Obsma 3.0, he would tell Israel, do what you need to do. Exterminate the vermin.
In the Torah we were to destroy Amelek! Israel needs to do that now.
Hinda, Trump does not keep his promises. He promised us in 2016 that he would “lock her up”, but he never meant it, and when he was elected he reneged on it and reached out to her instead. We’re just lucky that her bruised ego didn’t allow her to take him up on his offer.