Trump Says He Is Not Afraid Of Going To Jail: ‘I’m Not Sure The Public Would Stand For It’

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News that he is not afraid of going to jail or being sentenced to house arrest following his conviction on 34 felony counts in a Manhattan case plagued by political bias.

“I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” Trump said of a potential prison sentence on Sunday morning. “I think it’d be tough for the public to take. At a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”

Trump added that he has instructed his lawyers not to “beg” for a lighter sentence. The former president also spoke to the impact the verdict has had on his family, saying “I think in many ways, it’s tougher on them than it is on me. They’re good people, all of them…everyone, everyone.”

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Trump’s sentencing is currently scheduled for July 11, just days before he is set to be nominated at the Republican National convention. Judge Juan Merchan — a Biden donor whose daughter is a prominent Democrat political operative — will have the option to jail Trump just days before one of the campaign’s most important events.

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, citing an anonymous source within Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, reported that Bragg will be seeking a prison term of one year for the former president.

As a first-time offender of falsifying business records, Trump will likely not face jail time, especially when considering the fact that he has a clean criminal record. He will likely face a fine or possibly house arrest, though it is ultimately up to Judge Merchan.

The Secret Service has reportedly met with jail officials in New York City in preparation for the possibility of Trump’s imprisonment.

Bragg’s case has been heavily criticized by legal scholars since it was filed last year. While falsifying business records is a misdemeanor in New York, Bragg upgraded charges against Trump surrounding payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to a felony. In order to do so, Trump would have to have willingly falsified records in order to conceal another crime. Even after Trump has been convicted, Bragg’s office has never once identified the underlying crime.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, a former colleague of Bragg, has emerged as a leading voice against the dubious trial and conviction.

“The judge donated money — a tiny amount, $35, but in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations of any kind — to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation, including funds that the judge earmarked for ‘resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.’ Would folks have been just fine with the judge staying on the case if he had donated a couple bucks to ‘Re-elect Donald Trump, MAGA forever!’? Absolutely not,” Honig wrote in a blistering editorial.

“But that doesn’t mean that every structural infirmity around the Manhattan district attorney’s case has evaporated,” the CNN analyst continued. “Both of these things can be true at once: The jury did its job, and this case was an ill-conceived, unjustified mess. Sure, victory is the great deodorant, but a guilty verdict doesn’t make it all pure and right. Plenty of prosecutors have won plenty of convictions in cases that shouldn’t have been brought in the first place. ‘But they won’ is no defense to a strained, convoluted reach unless the goal is to ‘win,’ now, by any means necessary and worry about the credibility of the case and the fallout later.”

Each of the 34 felony charges Trump was convicted of carries a maximum prison sentence of four years.

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