Donald Trump warns that prison sentence could be a ‘breaking point’ for his supporters

Found guilty by a New York jury this week, Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Sunday June 2 that a prison sentence could be “a breaking point” for his supporters. Republican Party candidate for November presidential election warns on Fox News that prison sentence “would be complicated for the public to accept” for his supporters. Words which have particular resonance in a very divided country still marked by the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump tried to prevent the certification of the electoral victory of his Democratic rival Joe Biden.

An elected Democrat, Adam Schiff, also judged that with such remarks, Donald Trump was inciting “clearly (…) to violence once his judgment is known”. But “I don’t think the population is responding to this call. I hope we have learned the lessons of the terrible experience of January 6”he added on CNN.

The ex-president also claims in this interview that his trial was “very difficult” for his wife Melania, whose absence was noted among the members of his family who came to support him in court. “She’s doing well, but I think it’s very hard for her.”he said. “She has to read all this filth (…) I think this whole thing has probably been harder, in many ways, on my family than it has been on me.”