June 2, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, a convicted felon, suggested that a jail sentence would be a "breaking point" that leads to violence from his supporters.

Trump made the remarks during a Fox News interview aired Sunday.

"The legal maze that you're still facing and they could it judge could decide to say hey house arrest or even jail It could be faced," Fox News host Pete Hegseth told the former president.

"I saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, oh, no, you don't want to do that to the press. I said don't you don't beg for anything," Trump recalled.

"That could happen," he added, speaking of jail, "I don't know that the public would stand it, you know, I don't. I'm not sure the public would stand for it with a I think I think it would be tough for the public to take, you know at a certain point, there's a breaking point."

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