'Breaking Point'? Trump Wonders If 'Public Will Stand for It' If He's Sentenced to House Arrest

In this episode of Here We Go Again...

Can we just admit it— good, bad, or indifferent? Former President Donald Trump has a penchant for hyperbolic language. To deny that is to deny reality. Mind you, I'm not suggesting he's intentionally incendiary or that he even comes close to calling for violence.

Hell, the Donald might even know exactly what he's doing when he's doing it, with respect to rallying the Trump troops, but he also tends to play into the hand of the left when he "goes there," sometimes giving the opposition fresh meat that they promptly use as "proof" that he's "out of control" and cannot be allowed back in the Oval Office.

This brings us to Trump's Sunday interview on “Fox & Friends Weekend."

The former president was asked what he thought would happen if he were sentenced to house arrest or jail time following his conviction in the Manhattan trial over falsified business records.

His response to the Fox question was classic Trump (emphasis, mine):

I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know? I don’t — I’m not sure the public would stand for it. I think it’d be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.

I won't opine on the above, other than to suggest that "breaking point" makes a point to both supporters and foes alike. Is it over-the-top, in the context of a response to a question about potential political violence, or a not-well-thought-out answer? You make the call.

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Concerning how he feels about possible jail time, Trump told Fox:

I’m OK with it. I saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, oh, no, you don’t want to do that to the president. I said, 'Don’t, you ... beg for anything. It’s just the way it is.'

I'm sure Trump's legal team won't "beg for anything," but I'm even more sure they will fight this travesty against justice with everything they have— as it should be.

The Bottom Line

While I suspect that the chances of sending a first-offender former president of the United States to jail or prison for a non-violent crime are close to zero, nothing is impossible when it comes to the Trump Derangement Syndrome folks.

That said, if Trump is sentenced to jail or house arrest on July 11 — four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — then what might we see?

This post was edited post-publication for clarity.