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.”

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      194·
      6 months ago

      How you gonna wrap a law around it? Hell, even with something as “obvious” as this quote? Trump said nothing that “incites violence”. He’s playing the mob boss thing, again.

      If 01/06 wasn’t enough for our government to take action, nothing will be. And again, what would that action even look like?

      I’ve preached many, many times on here and reddit that libs need to get armed, educated and practiced. Is that terrorism? Fuck me. I’m just saying that the conservatives are ready to kill us and we should be prepared to defend ourselves.

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
        21·
        6 months ago

        You are aware that Trump was indicted for Jan 6 right? The trial is on hold while the Supreme Court decides if he is totally immune to legal consequences.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          Which is just a delay tactic. They aren’t seriously considering it. If they did somehow declare president’s immune for any action, biden could drop a hellfire missile on Trump and the Supreme Court and probably get away with it.

            • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
              1·
              6 months ago

              I know a lot of people talk about civil war but if that happened I think that would actually pop off a civil war.

              • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
                1·
                6 months ago

                It’s a contingency. There’s a lot of ways that a small number of people can destroy a generation of progress this November and rewind us to the days when America was great. When wife beating was fashionable, gay people were just “confirmed bachelors”, and you could tell what was between a person’s legs by looking at their haircut.

                For one, Trump is running for President, and somehow still has polls.

                For another, every house seat and a third of the Senate is up the year.

                Lastly, they already control the majority SCOTUS, and Mitch was nice enough to keep a not-insignificant number of lower court seats open until after Obama left office.

                So if Trump wins, he already controls the court and will do whatever he wants. Checks and balances be damned. What’s gonna happen, an impeachment? Bah.

                If Trump doesn’t win but Republicans manage to pick up a majority in the house/Senate, it’ll be a bit tougher time, but you can bet no leftist or progressive agenda will be a part of it. Unless somehow they manage a veto-proof majority, though I don’t think that’ll be possible.

                And if Trump wins and they pick up seats in Congress? Well, buckle up, it’s gonna be a hell of a ride.

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        151·
        6 months ago

        They do fine for, oh, the Panthers, black wall street, occupy wall street, war protesters, hippies…

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      87·
      6 months ago

      Because we have free speech, and people have free will. Direct calls to violence are illegal, but if you say “won’t someone rid me of this troublesome Vice President”, then you’re not directing someone to do anything; any actions taken are on their own initiative. There isn’t even a “just following orders” defense.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        10·
        6 months ago

        Because we have free speech, and people have free will.

        And it would be ridiculous to think that being a former president, especially a media lolcow like Trump, doesn’t land you a guaranteed platform anywhere, at any time.

        As long as everything, everywhere is commercialized including our news, every outrageous character and outrageous political outcome and outrageous tragedy will be another billboard, another rope to pull in viewers and raise a bottom line. We need independent media, but we need them to also be independent from the Wrestlemania spectacle the current batch feeds on and nurtures and grows and makes worse every day.