Donald Trump’s supporters are famously loyal. They followed his lead when he said the 2020 election was stolen from him. Some of them even stormed the Capitol to defend his honor and ended up in deep legal trouble. So far, many of them are sticking by him in the Republican presidential primary for 2024, as the rest of the field has been unable to knock him out of his polling lead.

And now, many of them are saying that they’d even be willing to have him be their president — from prison.

“If he’s convicted and he wins, put the Oval Office in whatever prison they have him in,” Dayna Duke, a Trump supporter from Arizona, said.

“It would be kind of fun to see actually. I know that sounds crazy,” Travis McMahon, a Trump rally attendee in Dubuque, Iowa, said.

​​“He can still run for president if he’s behind bars and he would still get the same amount of votes,” Republican Vicki Scott said. “Keep him tied up all next year, and we’re still going to vote for him. And I’ll tell you what, if it gets stolen again, it might be a third world war.”

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    On one hand: old man who lowered drug costs, forgived some student debt, invested in mental health, expanded healthcare for 3.5 million veterans, presiding over the lowest American unemployment rate in fifty years

    Other side: racist old impeached traitor sex predator fraudster convict grifting his own grassroots political donors.

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    It’s like they legit don’t know how government works and they want a President just like them.

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    Phone rings: This call is from an inmate in the state penitentiary, press 1 to accept a collect call from inmate [President Donald Trump]

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    Lost people is all they are. Using threats of violence to push their stupid useless world they made up in their minds. They deserve nothing but a kick in the teeth if and when they attack.

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    Can we make a litmus test to make sure people are mentally stable enough to have their voice counted?

    If you support a career criminal for public office you don’t deserve to have the same voice as a sane citizen.

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    if it gets stolen again, it might be a third world war.

    USA liberals better start buying some guns

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    Yes, please do. You’ll be handing a decisive win to Biden. The Trump cult isn’t gaining members, and some are defecting to RFK Jr (probably one of the funniest consequences of the embrace of conspiracy theories), so I’m okay with y’all throwing away your vote on a felon.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    “If he’s convicted and he wins, put the Oval Office in whatever prison they have him in,” Dayna Duke, a Trump supporter from Arizona, said.

    His lawyers would no doubt argue that he should not be in prison because it would impede him from doing his job as the newly elected president of the United States and would push to get him out.

    Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian and professor at Rice University, said that while the possibility is remote, it’s “plausible” Trump could be president — even briefly — while in prison.

    The former Missouri state senator with a budding political future spent a year in a Kentucky correctional facility after pleading guilty in 2009 to lying to federal authorities about illegal campaign activities.

    Even after Trump recently upped his violent rhetoric on the campaign trail by suggesting that former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley deserved to face the death penalty, among other statements, most of his supporters stood fervently by his words.

    “The weaponized, two-tiered justice system brought by Joe Biden and radical Democrats to go after their leading political opponent sends a chilling message that this is acceptable in this country.”


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