After suggesting there might be violence if he is incarcerated for any length of time, Donald Trump over the weekend demanded the U.S. Supreme Court intervene in his upcoming sentencing for his 34-count criminal felony conviction last week.
“I don’t know that the public would stand it. You know, I don’t — I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” on Sunday (video below), after claiming he would be “ok” with going to jail. “I think it would be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
Trump’s remarks to Fox News also come amid reports his supporters are attempting to “dox” the jurors who voted to convict him, including calling “for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed,” as NBC News reported last week.
The convicted felon ex-president just hours after his reportedly highly-edited interview aired sent a message via social media demanding assistance from the U.S. Supreme Court justices, three of whom he appointed.
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“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of ‘I will get Trump,’ reporting to an ‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED, will make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation? The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!”
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a former federal prosecutor, called Trump’s remarks a “dangerous appeal to violence.”
“We see this pattern over and over again, where Donald Trump communicates with his base supporters, making it pretty clear what he wants to see, and then his enablers try to explain it away,” Congressman Schiff told CNN on Sunday, Rolling Stone reported. “His base listens to him… And this is another dangerous appeal to violence.”
“This is essentially his threat — that, if he gets jail time, that he’s going to encourage his supporters to rise up,” Schiff continued. “And we saw the very deadly results of that on January 6. So I don’t think the public is going to respond to that call. I hope we learned something from the awful experience of January 6.”
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“It’s very clear what Donald Trump is suggesting here,” he added. “This is something… that the judge needs to take into consideration also, not to be intimidated by that threat, but as of further evidence this defendant not only doesn’t accept responsibility, but is willing to endanger people.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is not “Soros backed,” The Washington Post reported in April, adding that “the repeated mention of Soros plays into antisemitic conspiracy theories.” It is also false that Bragg “ran on a platform of ‘I will get Trump,'” according to Talking Points Memo. As NCRM has previously reported, New York State Supreme Court Acting Justice Juan Merchan is not a “local judge,” and was first appointed to the bench by the Republican Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg in 2006, then elevated by a Chief Administrative Judge also appointed by a Republican, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Watch a clip from Trump’s interview below or at this link.