{"id":54606,"date":"2024-06-04T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=54606"},"modified":"2024-06-04T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:29:55","slug":"trump-says-hes-ok-with-serving-potential-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/54606\/trump-says-hes-ok-with-serving-potential-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019s \u2018ok\u2019 with serving potential jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Any punishment, however, is not likely to be taken lightly by the public, he added, according to Russia Today.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-president made the remarks in an interview with Fox News aired Sunday. Asked about the potential punishments, Trump said he is \u201cok with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, \u2018Oh no, you don\u2019t want to do that to the president.\u2019 I said, \u2018You don\u2019t beg for anything,\u2019\u201d he stated, suggesting, however, that the potential punishments would anger his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the public would stand it. I\u2019m not sure the public would stand for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated his take on the case against him regarding alleged \u2018hush money\u2019 payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the wake of the 2016 election and the falsified paperwork to hide them, dismissing it as politically-motivated persecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople get it. It\u2019s a scam. And the Republican Party\u2026 they\u2019ve stuck together in this. They see it\u2019s a weaponization of the Justice Department of the FBI and that\u2019s all coming out of Washington,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former US president was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury on Thursday. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of four years behind bars. Trump\u2019s legal team has already vowed to appeal, with the ex-president saying the \u201creal verdict\u201d will be delivered by the public in the election on November 5.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is now the first US president to be convicted of a felony. Sentencing has been scheduled for July 11, just ahead of the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any punishment, however, is not likely to be taken lightly by the public, he added, according to Russia Today. The ex-president made the remarks in an interview with Fox News aired Sunday. Asked about the potential punishments, Trump said he is \u201cok with it.\u201d \u201cI saw one of my lawyers the other day on television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}