At this point, regardless of the looming midterm elections, the American political observer finds him or herself far more entranced with the combative back-and-forth between Donald Trump and the Department of Justice, and just what repercussions will be felt in the lead-up to 2024.
The DOJ’s plethora of probes into Trump have been grinding along for months now, seeking and searching and subpoenaing their way through the former President’s inner circle. The lack of charges, however, is telling, especially when we take a good hard look at just how hard they’ve been looking.
It’s peculiar, really, and Trump knows it. That’s why he has such a grim prediction for what could occur if the DOJ suddenly finds some reason to charge him with a crime.
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the nation would face “problems … the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen” if he is indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office, an apparent suggestion that such a move by the Justice Department could spark violence from Trump’s supporters.
The former president said an indictment wouldn’t stop him from running for the White House again and repeatedly said Americans “would not stand” for his prosecution.
“If a thing like that happened, I would have no prohibition against running,” Trump said in an interview with conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. “I think if it happened, I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.”
Hewitt asked Trump what he meant by “problems.”
The 45th President didn’t hesitate.
“I think they’d have big problems. Big problems. I just don’t think they’d stand for it. They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes,” Trump said.
With every passing day, the likelihood the the DOJ brings true charges against Trump diminishes, but, inversely, the chances that they manufacture a reason to indict him increase.
