Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump went off the rails rapidly in a rambling interview delivered on the far-right cable network Newsmax on Tuesday night, threatening to throw former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in jail.
The footage was first flagged by Public Notice's Aaron Rupar, and Meidas Touch's Acyn Torabi.
"Wouldn't it be terrible to throw the president's wife and the former secretary of state into jail?" Trump told Newsmax interviewer Greg Kelly. "Wouldn't that be a terrible thing? It's a terrible, terrible, path that they're leading us to. And it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them."
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During other parts of the segment, Trump also claimed that President Joe Biden's new executive action to control migration at the southern border was a "hit job" and that migrants are "poisoning our country."
He also delivered a lengthy boast that his Mar-a-Lago country club in South Florida is worth $2 billion (the Palm Beach County appraiser has judged Mar-a-Lago to be worth between $18 and $28 million in inspections between 2011 and 2021.)
Trump also began quoting right-wing legal experts who support his innocence in the Manhattan criminal case, including law professor Jonathan Turley, and bragged about how his campaign had raised over $70 million, as Kelly visibly tried and failed to get a word in edgewise during the segment.
He bemoaned the fact that no jurors smiled at him.
Newsmax has become a favorite network of Trump's, who has grown increasingly frustrated with his lack of ability to fully control the narrative and lineup on Republicans' traditional haven network of Fox News.
As with the now-settled Fox News case, Newsmax is also being sued by the election hardware manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems, for its role in pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential contest being rigged.
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