Donald Trump said he would accept home confinement or jail time after his historic conviction by a New York jury last week but that it would be tough for the public to accept.
“I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” the Republican presidential candidate told Fox News in an interview that aired on Sunday. “I think it’d be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
Trump did not elaborate on what he thought might happen if that point is reached. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 11, four days before Republicans gather to formally choose their presidential nominee to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s election.
Asked what Trump supporters should do if he were jailed, Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump told CNN: “Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5th. There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.”
Yawn. I’ll be break—dancing
Break into laughter and start cheering
And they’ll live stream the evidence again
And pose for news photographers.
Meh. We outnumber the traitor MAGA cunts.
Non-NAZIs outnumbered NAZIs in 1930s Germany. Look how far that got them.
Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5th. There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.
From the party that literally lead a violent insurrection intended to overthrow the government and install Trump as a dictator for life.
At every step of consequences a facsist will say:
If you hold me accountable, they’ll be consequences
What they leave out, is if we don’t hold fascists accountable, everyone in power starts acting like they’re not accountable. Before you know what’s going on, all the possible options are corrupt. And it’s no longer about winning, it’s about mitigating how much you’ll lose by.
But you always keep losing.
And they’ll do it again in 2029. The most important part of that quote is their commitment to getting him another crack at it.
Vote in November.
Fuck me don’t say 2029. I feel my youth draining away
I feel you. I distinctly remember being inspired by a sci-fi show called Beyond 2000.
I’ve never seen anyone else mention that show. My brother and I used to watch it watch it all the time. It looks like it had a few different names/iterations, we watched The Discovery Channels verion in the U.S., in the early 90s.
That’s the one! I loved it. Such an intriguing and inspiring show. It would be interesting to watch it again to see what was actually developed.
It’s a ruse. MAGAs are planning and scheming, likely with Putin’s help. They will obstruct voting, corrupt results and use violence. The Republican party is in its death throes, replaced by the insane authoritarian MAGA party.
Vote - your life and your families lives depend on it.
It’ll be a breaking point for me, for sure. I’ll be breaking out the good booze.
I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift.
We uncork it the day Trump goes to jail.
There are times I wonder if the civil war was a good idea. Just let those confederate states break away from the north. I don’t support the idea of a confederacy, nor do I support slavery, but hear me out.
I fully believe that the south on their own would have crumbled as a country, as the new, smaller USA would have told the world "Hey, if you buy goods from the south, just know it’s with slave labor. If you buy it from the USA, it’s 100% slave free.
After some years, the then democrats (which today would be the republicans…weird, I know), would have screwed their own country up so bad, that I feel each state would have tried to become it’s own country. And it’s impossible to know where the butterfly takes us from there.
But today we would have a USA that’s roughly half the size, quite a bit smaller population wise, but still basically the USA we know today in terms of place in the world.
So now, today, trump would be campaigning down in alabama or florida or some shit, and none of this bullshit would be our problem. Because if he tried campaigning in the USA, he would be shot down HARD. All the racists and confederate flag bearers, and bible thumpers are in the south…and also Ohio for some unexplained reason.
Point is. He would either campaign in a country that won’t have him, or campaign in a country that loves him…but it’s not our problem.
It wouldn’t be that clean cut. Yes, a good chunk of the southeast would go but you have plenty of states that are discontiguous or so close to a 50-50 split, that we’d end up with a bunch of 1850s Kansas-Missouri situations.
You might want to look at the past two elecctoral college maps before you go blaming everything on the south.
I said “and Ohio”. The western states didn’t exist back then.
Donald Trump is from New York.
Then you will starve to death. Comments like this make it obvious who has and hasn’t driven through red states.
I LIVE in a red state. Granted, it’s a blue city, but take about a 10 minute drive outside of town? Nothing but cows and racists all around. I like the cows more.
Why would I starve to death? Do you think blue states don’t have farms? Ports?
If he is not jailed it will be the breaking point for Americans
Even more reason to do it. Trump shouldn’t be excused from being held accountable just because his supporters don’t like it, along with any people in power.
oh i surely hope so. it’s time for fuckmerica to find out
Nah, not gonna happen. The guy thinks too highly of himself and his value for society, that’s been confirmed multiple times.
January 6th, 2021
I’m pretty sure that was very close to the maximun extent of his influence.
If I had a nickle for every headline I’ve read that has “trump says”
This mother fucker gets entire news articles every time he talks. The least interesting and most predictable man in the world has the news reporting his every word.
I can’t do another 4 years. I can’t.
Please stop treating politics like a cultural, intellect, personal identity battlefield when engaging in this topic. Your “opponent” will see it that way and have their gaurd up, only listening to what to say to try to disprove it rather than hearing what you say. Your job is to change that, so they actually find themselves having a conversation. Asking questions, giving more level but still emotional arguments (not sensationalized like this(
This shit isn’t helpful, it isn’t convincing anyone of anything. In fact I find it harmful
It sounds like he is just whining but the underlying message is there may be more violence if he is prosecuted. He is setting up a threat of violence. “They are going to do what they did since the beginning” is a threat. What did they do in the beginning??? Hmm oh idk unite the right rally and all that jazz. And bookends with one of the most significant moments in American history where the president encouraged and allowed an insurrection to take place for 6 fucking hours while ignoring pleas from his staff, family, legal counsel, and fellow government officials particularly his closest.
But you have to be able to have enough context and a depressingly low bar of critical thinking skills to read between the lines in the article, especially when the headline primes you for what another nutty thing he says and then the reader just decides if they think it is a bad thing to say or not. Ugh. UGH. Thanks for sticking this out
Only one way to find out!
A break in the right direction. Fuck that orange dork.
I doubt it.
