Former President Donald Trump walks to make comments to members of the media after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024, in New York.
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Former President Donald Trump is a convicted felon. That new reality means Trump is even more desperate and dangerous. If Trump had been acquitted or even if there had been a hung jury, Trump could have believed he truly was the “Teflon Don” who would never be held accountable.
That is no longer the reality. Rather, Trump’s seeming invincibility is waning like that of the person first called the “Teflon Don,” mobster John Gotti, who earned that moniker after avoiding criminal convictions in prior cases. Gotti’s Teflon, though, ended in 1992 after a jury found him guilty in a case where a former close associate testified against him. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2002.
n a Fox News interview aired Sunday, the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee first responded to a question about the prospect of being incarcerated with a sense of bravado, saying, “I’m OK with it.”
But then after a little more back-and-forth, Trump — who is still clearly processing his new status as a convicted felon — alarmingly commented about the potential of being sentenced to jail, saying, “I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know?” He continued, “I think it would be tough for the public to take.”
Trump then added, ominously, “At a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
In response to Trump’s “breaking point” comment, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California stated bluntly on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “this is clearly Donald Trump once again inciting violence.” Schiff — who has been a vocal Trump critic for years — is right.
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