Just last week historical convictionformer President Donald Trump warned his political rivals on Tuesday.
In an interview with the conservative “Newsmax” publication, Trump revealed the possibility of arresting his political opponents if he becomes president again.
“So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible way that they’re taking us, and it’s probably going to happen to them,” Trump said when discussing his guilty verdict.
“Does that mean the next president is doing it to them? That’s really the question,” he added.
Talk of going after his political enemies has been a recurring theme during his campaign, resurfacing since the verdict.
Trump at the start of his re-election campaign is often raised The president is impeaching Joe Biden.
“I’m going to appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in American history, Joe Biden, and to go after the Biden crime family,” Trump said hours after his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, in June. After leaving the White House, he was brought to a federal courthouse in Miami on charges of handling classified documents.
Trump also discussed his 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and how he didn’t arrest her. “Lock him up” has been a frequent slogan at Trump campaign rallies this election cycle — often endorsed by Trump himself.
But Trump was now crediting himself for not going after Clinton compared to what was done to him.
“Some people said I should have done it, but you know, I could have done it, it would have been so easy to do it, but I thought it would set a terrible precedent for our country,” Trump said. “Whoever it is now, you’re going to have to look at it very differently. This is the bad, bad way they are taking us as a country.”
A spokesman for Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump said his revenge would be his “success.”
“I mean it, but it’s so hard when you see what they’re doing. These people are very bad,” Trump said.
He also suggested that “breaking point“To the public, if he is incarcerated or sentenced to house arrest after being found guilty in a silence trial.
A New York jury found Trump guilty on Thursday on all 34 criminal articles In his hush money case for covering up payments to an adult movie star to help his 2016 campaign.
In an interview with Newsmax, Trump complained about the jury during the trial, saying he “never saw a smile” from them and that he was not given a fair trial.
Judge Juan Merchan, who oversees the Hush money business gag order Trump banning him from talking about jurors, potential witnesses and individual prosecutors that he hasn’t brought up since the trial ended. During the trial, Merchan fined Trump $10,000 for violating traffic rules.
Trump also criticized writer E. Jean Carroll, who said Trump raped her in a department store in the 1990s.
“I’ve never met this woman,” he said. “I don’t know this woman. And I have to pay a ridiculous amount for a fictional story.
A jury in New York last May It accused Trump of sexual harassment and defamation of Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million. In January, after he continued to deny Carroll’s claims and publicly attack him, he was ordered to: will pay him an additional 83 million dollars for defamation.
Amanda Terkel contributed.