Trump says he's 'okay' with prison or house arrest – Mother Jones

Following former President Trump first criminal conviction – and his rants against the outcome – he says the possibility of being sentenced to house arrest or prison time doesn't bother him.

“I’m OK with that,” Trump said. Fox and Friends Weekendin his first interview since a dozen jurors returned guilty verdicts Thursday on 34 of 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records.

THE Fox and friends the hosts said they spent 90 minutes interviewing the former president at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey. In the 11-minute clip released Sunday, Trump rambled and repeated many of his complaints about the case and his political opponents: people trying to hold him accountable are “deranged,” the trial was “a scam,” President Biden “can’t put two sentences together: Democrats are “a threat to democracy.” Trump also called the guilty verdict, which he plans to appeal, “harder on my family than on me.”

And, ever the martyr, the former president added that he believed a prison sentence or house arrest would upset his adoring public. “I’m not sure the public would accept it,” he said. “I think it would be difficult for the public to accept. You know, at some point there's a breaking point.

But that remains to be seen. A CBS News/YouGov poll released today finds that while 45% of respondents think Trump should not serve prison time for the conviction, 38% think he should, and 17% are not sure . An ABC/Ipsos poll found that half of Americans agree with the verdict — and almost as many, 49 percent, think Trump should end his presidential campaign because of it.

Meanwhile, top Republicans are privately preparing for the possibility that their presumptive nominee will be incarcerated when the party formally nominates him at the Republican National Convention in July, according to a report on CBS. Face the nation. Former president's sentencing set for July 11; The four-day RNC will begin in Milwaukee on July 15.

Some legal experts say Trump's chances of prison time are slim given his age, 77, and his lack of criminal record. He could simply be sentenced to probation. But incarceration is certainly possible, especially given Trump's repeated violations of the ban on making “threatening, inflammatory and denigrating” remarks toward witnesses, jurors, court workers and their families.

A thing East it's certain: the prison will not stop his campaign. “He's running for president,” Trump's lawyer Alina Habba told the BBC on Sunday. “Nothing will change there.”