Former US President Donald Trump, found guilty by a New York jury this week in the Stormy Daniels affair, warned on Sunday that a prison sentence could be “a breaking point” for his supporters. The former porn actress asked for the Republican to be incarcerated.
Interviewed on Fox News, Donald Trump estimated that a prison sentence “would be complicated for the public to accept.” And added: “You know, at a certain point, there is a breaking point.”
After six weeks of proceedings at the Manhattan court in New York, a jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of accounting falsification for payments at the end of 2016 to porn actress Stormy Daniels, so that she kept quiet about a sexual relationship in 2006. A relationship that Donald Trump continues to deny.
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You know at some point there’s a breaking point
This verdict, the first in criminal proceedings in the history of the United States against a former president, will not prevent the Republican billionaire from being a presidential candidate on November 5 against Democrat Joe Biden, even in the event of a conviction. prison sentence.
>> The 7:30 p.m. explanations on the verdict pronounced against Donald Trump:
A “very harsh” trial for Melania Trump
During the interview, the former American president also considered that those who had judged him were “bad people” and affirmed that his recent criminal trial had been “very hard” for his wife Melania, whose absence was noted among his family members who came to support him in court.
“She’s doing well, but I think it’s very hard for her,” said Donald Trump, because “she has to read all this dirt.” “I think this whole thing has probably been harder, in a lot of ways, on my family than it has been on me,” he added.
I think this has probably been harder, in many ways, on my family than it has been on me.
Three of Donald Trump’s children were in court for the final days of the trial, but not his wife. Melania Trump has also been very little involved in the electoral campaign, having attended no meetings and rarely being seen with her husband in public.
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