Following his historic conviction by a New York jury, the former US president donald trump He stated that he would be willing to accept house arrest or jail but warned that it would be difficult for people to accept it.
“I’m not sure people will accept it. I think it would be difficult to accept. At a certain point, it would be a moment of fracture,” said the Republican presidential candidate to FoxNews.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, cfour days before for Republicans to meet to formally choose their presidential candidate who will face the Democratic president Joe Biden in the November elections.
In line with the former president, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Lea He referred to how supporters should act if the candidate were imprisoned. “They are going to do what they have done from the beginning, which is keep calm and protest at the polls November 5. There is nothing more than to speak out loud and clear against it.”he expressed.
Trump used his conviction to step up his fundraising efforts, but he is not trying to mobilize his supporters in any other way, in contrast to his comments protesting his 2020 loss to Biden. which were followed by a deadly attack by his supporters on January 6, 2021 on the United States Capitol.
Some Trump supporters American flags were hung upside down after the verdict. The inverted flag was a symbol of distress or protest in the United States for more than 200 years.
The RNC and the Trump campaign raised $70 million in the 48 hours after the verdict, said Lara Trump, aa figure that Reuters could not independently verify.
At least one Democratic lawmaker expressed concern Sunday about the possibility that Trump supporters respond violently to his condemnation. “His base listens to him. They don’t listen to Lara Trump. And this is another dangerous call to violence.”said to cnn Democratic Representative Adam Schiff.
However, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Michael Johnsona Trump ally, said any response must be legal. “We are the party of the rule of law: chaos is not a conservative value. We have to fight back and we will do so with all our arsenal. But we do it within the limits of the rule of law,” he said.
Trump has vowed to appeal his conviction by the New York jury, which found him guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn actress before the 2016 election.
