Former President Donald Trump suggested he will prosecute his political rivals as payback after he was convicted of falsifying business records by a New York jury last week. Trump is also under indictment in three other jurisdictions relating to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and his retention of government documents after leaving office.
Newsmax host Greg Kelly interviewed Trump via phone on Tuesday’s edition of Greg Kelly Reports and asked the former president if the conviction will help his chances in November.
“Is it possible that this is a net positive?” Kelly asked. “A lot of money is coming in, a lot of support. Is it a net positive?”
Trump dodged the question and went on the attack instead.
“Well, they’re nasty people,” he replied. “They’re crooked as hell. They’re nasty, vicious people.”
The former president called his prosecution “a terrible precedent” and said his call for Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned was meant in jest:
Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question. You know, I said on a recent show that I did, a good show, good people, you would like these people even though they’re competitors. But you know, when I mentioned Hillary’s name, they’d all scream “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” And everybody got a kick out of it and all…
And wouldn’t it be really bad like, as an example, Hillary with the hammering of her cell phones 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. 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.
Last year, the former president suggested he would use the FBI to target his political opponents.
Trump went on to tell Kelly that it would have been “easy” for his Department of Justice to prosecute Hillary Clinton, but he declined because, “I thought it would be a terrible precedent for our country. And now, whoever it may be, you’re gonna have to view it very much differently. This is a bad, bad road that they’re leading us down to as a country.”
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