Trump again suggests he would try to prosecute his political opponents if reelected
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday again suggested he would try to prosecute his political opponents if he’s reelected as he railed against his criminal conviction in New York.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday again suggested he would try to prosecute his political opponents if he’s reelected as he railed against his criminal conviction in New York. “It’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them,” Trump said in an interview with Newsmax. Trump faces the possibility of a prison sentence after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. “It’s a very terrible thing. It’s a terrible precedent for our country. Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question,” he said. The former president has been suggesting he would weaponize the Justice Department against his political opponents since he was first indicted more than a year ago. He has said he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate President Joe Biden and his family if reelected and has argued several times he believes he is justified in doing so because Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee criminal investigations that implicate Trump. The former president still faces charges in three other criminal cases against him, and he has denied any wrongdoing. Trump, who has repeatedly called for the imprisonment of his 2016 Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton despite her never being charged with a crime, on Tuesday said he thought it would have been a “terrible thing” if Clinton went to jail. Trump recently falsely claimed in an interview with Fox News that he didn’t call to lock up Clinton.
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