Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shared her concern about the possibility that Donald Trump will send her to jail if he retakes the White House in the November presidential election.
Talking with podcast host Kara Swisher The progressive Democrat said she takes Trump at his word.
“I mean, it sounds crazy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy put me in jail.” He is crazy. I mean, he made his entire first campaign around ‘locking her up.’ This is his motto,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
I take him at his word when he says he’s going to arrest people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word,” she continued.
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shared her concern about the possibility that Donald Trump will send her to jail if he retakes the White House in the November elections.
AOC urges Trump critics to take the former president at his word when he makes threats. Trump is pictured during a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
‘I feel that what we saw in his first presidency was an appetizer of what his intentions are. He has learned from his mistakes in appointing professionals and will not make that mistake next time.”
AOC’s concern stems from Trump’s response to a question earlier this month when he was asked during a fox and friends interview if “revenge” will be his “success.”
‘These are bad people. “These people are sick and doing things that are so destructive… If it wasn’t me, they would be going after someone else, and I know a lot about the competition,” Trump said. “They wouldn’t do so well.”
Speaking with podcast host Kara Swisher, the progressive Democrat said she takes Trump at his word.
But more recently, Trump attempted to allay fears that he would seek retaliation while suggesting he would still have every right to do so.
“Number one, they’re wrong,” Trump told Sean Hannity. “This has to stop, because otherwise we will not have a country
“Look, when these elections are over, based on what they have done, I would have every right to go after them, and it is easy, because it is Joe Biden and you see all the criminality, all the money that goes to family and him, everything this money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine.
‘They (Democrats) don’t want to arrest for any crime. “They want to arrest the person who won the nomination in a landslide,” Trump said.
During Swisher’s podcast, he asked the New York lawmaker if he thought Trump had a good chance of securing the White House for a second term.
“Trump absolutely has a chance of winning. That’s why I’ve supported Biden from the beginning and I support him loudly,” AOC said.
“It is unequivocal that if Donald Trump wins, we will be facing the possible dissolution of democracy in the United States of America and the question of what would happen to me or the Democratic Party is a joke compared to the question of what will happen to us” . It will happen to our country.”
He admitted that there was a clear lack of enthusiasm around President Biden and his campaign.
‘I think when it comes to presidential elections, and especially young people, I understand the lack of support for President Biden.
“I think the demoralization around the president has caused people to sometimes stop paying attention to candidates who will actually promote greater alignment with their interests. So the answer here is to get into the game, not out of it,” he stated.
Trump is scheduled for a virtual parole interview on Monday after a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his “hush money” trial.
The former president will participate in the hearing from his home in Mar-a-Lago.
The parole interview is a normal process for Trump’s pre-sentence report.
The interview is the next step in the sentencing process, as Judge Juan Merchán will sentence the former president on July 11, a few days before the Republican National convention begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The interview will be conducted by a probation officer and Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, will be present.
The interview will be followed by a report that will be delivered to the judge.
Former President Donald Trump was seen waving to supporters while talking on the phone while leaving a Beverly Hills estate after a fundraiser on Friday night.
Trump faces up to four years in prison after conviction, but is also possible for parole.
However, a successful appeal to the higher courts by Trump’s legal team could further delay the sentencing decision.
Trump continues to criticize the verdict, appearing at a Turning Point PAC town hall in Arizona last Thursday to rally his supporters behind him.
“I just went through a rigged trial in New York,” he said. “With a very conflictive judge where there was no crime, it was all fabricated material, they did not want to present the case, they could have presented it seven years ago, but only when you run for public office do they present the cases,’ he said.
On the bright side, Trump celebrated that he and the Republican Party had raised nearly $400 million in donations since the verdict was announced.
Trump continues to lead Biden in two key states, Nevada and Arizona, however, a national poll conducted after the Republican’s conviction shows the presidential race is tightening.
Fox News released new polling numbers Thursday showing Trump leading by 5 points in Arizona among registered voters: 51 percent to Biden’s 46 percent.
In nearby Nevada, Trump also led Biden by 5 points: 50 percent to the Democrat’s 45 percent.
Former President Donald Trump (left) still leads President Joe Biden (right) in two key states, Nevada and Arizona, but a national poll conducted after the Republican’s conviction shows the presidential race is becoming tighter.
When The New York Times and Siena College recontacted 2,000 voters from their spring survey, pollsters found that former President Donald Trump’s three-point national lead shrank to just 1 percent after the guilty verdict.
Polls have shown Trump ahead of Biden in Arizona for more than a year. while Trump has been ahead of Biden in Nevada since November, according to Real Clear Politics polling averages, and the verdict apparently had no effect on the numbers.
Pollsters asked just two questions about the trial: whether voters thought it was fair and how much they cared, the latter to indicate whether it would change people’s votes.
In Arizona, 63 percent said the hush money lawsuit didn’t matter, while only about a third, 36 percent, said it did.
Additionally, only 25 percent expressed that they cared “a lot.”