Former US President Donald Trump, found guilty by a New York jury this week, said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that a prison sentence could be “a breaking point” for his supporters.
The Republican candidate for the US presidential election in November warned in an interview on Fox News that a prison sentence “would be complicated for the public to accept. 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
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.
In the interview broadcast on Sunday, the former US president also claimed that his recent criminal trial had been “very difficult” for his wife Melania, whose absence was noted among the members of his family who came to support him in court.
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