Former President Donald Trump warned that if he is indicted for mishandling classified documents or for a scheme to submit fake electors in the 2020 election there will be “problems” the likes of which “we’ve never seen before.”
“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.”
Trump did not specify what he meant by “problems” but pushed back when Hewitt said the “legacy media” will accuse him of inciting violence.
“That’s not inciting, I’m just saying what my opinion is,” Trump said. “I don’t think the people of this country would stand for it.”
During the interview, Trump claimed he had no involvement in the scheme to submit fake electors in Georgia and repeated his debunked claim that he declassified the documents the FBI retrieved from Mar-a-Lago, a claim that his lawyers are not even making in court.
“There is no reason that they can indict, other than if they’re just sick and deranged, which is always possible, because I did absolutely nothing wrong,” Trump said.
This is not the first time Republicans have said there will be violence if Trump faced consequences for his actions. After the search last month, Trump ally Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C) said “there will be riots in the street,” if the former president is prosecuted.
