Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the November presidential election, warned in an interview on the channel Fox News than a prison sentence “would be complicated for the public to accept. You know, at a certain point, there’s 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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Still in the running for the presidential election
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.
