Former President Donald Trump argues his prosecution and guilty verdict are setting a “terrible precedent.”
And that it could come back to hurt Democrats.
During an interview with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly, Trump asked, “Does that mean the next president does it to [Democrats]? That’s really the question.”
“You know, I said on a recent show that I did, a good show, good people, you would like these people even though they’re competitors. But you know, when I mentioned Hillary’s name, they’d all scream ‘Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!’ And everybody got a kick out of it and all,” he added.
Trump went on to mention former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
“And wouldn’t it be really bad like, as an example, Hillary with the hammering of her cell phones and all of the things she did, but wouldn’t it be terrible to throw the president’s wife and the former secretary of state– you think of it, the former secretary of state, but the president, the president’s wife into jail.”
He added, “Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing? But they want to do it. So, you know, it’s like it’s, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to. And it’s very possible that it’s gonna have to happen to them.”
Listen to his comments below:
Trump suggested it would have been “easy” to prosecute Clinton, but said he thought it would be “terrible precedent for our country.”
“And now, whoever it may be, you’re gonna have to view it very much differently. This is a bad, bad road that they’re leading us down to as a country,” he added.
His comments come after a jury in Manhattan found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
