Days after being found guilty of falsifying business documents to cover up a payment of money in exchange for silence to the porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that if he goes to jail there will be “a moment of fracture” for people in the United States.
In an interview with Fox News, the former president said that he would accept house confinement or even jail, although he considered that it would be difficult for people to accept it.
“I’m not sure people will accept it,” the Republican presidential candidate said. “I think it would be difficult for people to accept. You know, at a certain point, there’s a moment of fracture“.
How the conviction of Donald Trump affects the electoral campaign
On July 11, his sentence will be announced, and the Justice will determine if he will actually go to prison. The decision will be made official four days before the Republicans define who will be your candidate to face President Joe Biden in the November elections. Everything indicates that Trump, Despite his great legal complications, he will be the one chosen to fight in the elections.
In this regard, Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said in dialogue with cnn that, given this panorama, the businessman’s supporters will “what they have done from the beginning, which is to remain calm and protest at the polls on November 5. There is nothing more than to demonstrate loud and clear against it.”
Trump used the conviction against him as a platform to promote your candidacy, taking advantage to raise funds. According to Lara, since the court’s verdict was known, they gathered 70 million dollars in 48 hours for the campaign. Some Trump supporters even hung American flags upside down in protest.
Donald Trump was found guilty of all charges against him
The members of the jury declared guilty of all positions to the former president Donald Trump, in a historic trial that took place in New York, USA, for falsify business documents to cover up a payment of money in exchange for silence to the porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 elections.
Trump, 77 years old, is the first former president in US history to receive a criminal conviction. Throughout the trial, the mogul pleaded not guilty and denies having had the alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Daniels.
The guilty plea could upend the 2024 presidential race, in which Trump, the Republican candidate, aspires to take the White House to Democratic President Joe Biden in an election that will be held on November 5. In any case, the conviction will not prevent him from competing for the presidency.
