“Real Time” host Bill Maher debated whether former President Trump should go to jail following this week's guilty verdict.
“Here's the key question: Will he go to jail? Will this judge dare to do that? And should he?” Maher asked during a panel discussion Friday night.
“I mean, I've heard some people say that if his name wasn't Donald Trump, he would definitely go to jail. But sending a former American president to jail, I don't know if that's a thing. I'm asking,” Maher continued.
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Bill Maher said “MAGA nation will go crazy” if former President Trump is sent to prison following his guilty verdict in the New York trial. (Screenshot/HBO)
Former Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., responded by predicting that Trump will not go to jail based on Manhattan's sentencing history for similar crimes.
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod expressed reluctance to send the presumptive Republican nominee to prison.
“Listen, a lot of people in my tribe don't like it when I say this, but yeah, I think there's something about imprisoning a former president, especially for something like this,” Axelrod told Maher. “For me this is worrying for our country. And I would be very surprised if this judge sentenced him to prison for this.”
“I mean, MAGA nation is going to go crazy,” Maher said. “I don't know if that's a reason to do something or not, but they will.”
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Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower on Thursday, May 30, 2024 after being found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
The HBO star later worried that a “civil war” could break out if Trump was sent to jail, specifically a “race war,” and accused his followers of being outraged by a black district attorney and a judge. Hispanic who made this happen.
“I'm sorry to say that a civil war in this country becomes a race war,” Maher said. “That's the sad truth about this country. And if they put him in jail, I mean, the first thing his followers will say is, 'Oh, that's what he is.' A black district attorney. You know, all these people who are The district attorneys are black. The judge was not white.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks after the guilty verdict in the criminal trial of former US President Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records to conceal money paid to hush porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at a conference press conference in New York, United States, on May 30. , 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (REUTERS)
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On Thursday, Trump was found guilty of all 34 charges against him in the New York trial related to falsifying business records. His legal team vows to challenge the verdict.
Trump's defenders have criticized the guilty verdictaccusing Democrats of using legal warfare to try to defeat him in the upcoming November presidential election.
