(Washington) 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 presidential candidate 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’s a breaking point.”
After six weeks of proceedings in Manhattan Court in New York, a jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of accounting falsification for payments in late 2016 to pornographic film 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 American president also affirmed that his recent criminal trial had been “very hard” 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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Donald and Melania Trump attended their son Barron’s graduation at Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida on May 17.
“She’s doing well, but I think it’s very hard for her,” said the Republican candidate for the Banche House in an interview broadcast Sunday on Fox News. “She has to read all this rubbish.”
“I think this whole thing has probably been harder, in a lot of ways, on my family than it has been on me,” he added.
Three of his adult children were in court for the final days of the trial.
Melania Trump has had very little involvement in the election campaign, having attended no rallies and rarely being seen with him in public.
Read Michel C. Auger’s column “Prisoner of his own lies”