Former President Donald Trump said last week that he would run for president from the inside of a prison cell if he is convicted in the criminal cases he’s fighting.
“Not at all. There’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could,” Trump said when asked if a conviction would stop him from his campaign. “Even the radical Left crazies are saying, ‘No, that wouldn’t stop!’ And it wouldn’t stop me either.”
The comments come after the former president was charged with three additional counts in the federal criminal investigation into his handling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump later posted on social media that Special Counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor behind the two federal criminal investigations into Trump, should be jailed.
“They ought to throw Deranged Jack Smith and his Thug Prosecutors in jail, with Meritless Garland and Trump Hating Lisa Monaco,” Trump wrote. “They have totally Weaponized the Department of Injustice. Whatever happened to the Crooked Joe Biden Boxes Case? Why was Hillary Clinton allowed to delete 33,000 emails, many of them Classified, AFTER getting a Subpoena from Congress? Why was Bill Clinton allowed to take tapes out of the W.H. in his socks? Why has no other President ever been charged? ELECTION FRAUD!”
From The Daily Wire:
Trump was charged with one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts stemming from alleged attempts to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago after investigators had delivered a subpoena to Trump seeking the materials that he had in his possession.
