Former president Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 counts in his New York hush money trial and the consequences could be massive: Will Joe Biden use this as an excuse not to debate him? Did the Left just want the ability to call him a "convicted felon?" Or is there more at play here? Glenn's chief researcher Jason Buttrill and BlazeTV contributor Jill Savage join him to discuss what may happen next, especially if Trump appeals this all the way to the Supreme Court. Is this why the Left has been attacking Justice Samuel Alito and other conservative justices over the past few weeks? Has it all been an intimidation tactic to tell SCOTUS to back down from any Trump cases? Plus, what if Trump is sentenced to prison, or even house arrest, during the height of election season?
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GLENN: So let me ask you: Thirty-four counts yesterday, against Donald Trump. How are you feeling?
JASON: Well, is it out of the realm to say, I'm pissed off? Is that evidence?
GLENN: Oh, no. No. I am -- I am -- I couldn't even -- I saw it. And there was a -- a good portion of last night, I honestly thought about calling in sick.
Because I thought, I am going to be so angry.
JASON: Can I tell you?
So we were taping the news and why it was Sara Gonzales yesterday. We had to completely just stop. Because we heard out of the blue, that the verdict was coming down.
And immediately. Because everyone was predicting that the best-case scenario was a hung jury. That was the best-case scenario. After the crazy instructions, and rules that the judge had set.
Okay. The best-case scenario is hung jury. He's not going to get acquitted. But when it came that fast, instantly, I knew.
The only possible outcome was he was getting convicted. And I couldn't -- I couldn't even explain.
34 count -- felony counts over something that shouldn't have -- in the history of law, in New York, has never been tried like this!
Has never been handled like this. Completely unprecedented.
GLENN: No!
JASON: The only you thing that made sense was like, the John Grisham runaway jury. That's the first thing that popped in my head.
GLENN: Well, you had two attorneys on the jury. You had two attorneys.
JASON: Yeah.
GLENN: And, you know, they were sitting there. And they were advising, and they were the ones going, no. Really. Honestly, this is the way it works.
JASON: Yeah.
GLENN: And I think they made a big, big impact.
This is -- to me, this is the O.J. Simpson jury.
JASON: Hmm.
GLENN: They just -- O.J. Simpson, it didn't matter what the facts were. They wanted him freed. This jury, no matter what the facts were, they wanted him in jail.
JILL: This outcome was predetermined. They went through all of the steps to get to where we were yesterday afternoon. They raided Mar-a-Lago. They went through and tried him. And put him on court. You knew, even if they didn't get it this time. Would that stop them?
GLENN: No.
JILL: They would keep going until they got this.
Because the end goal was to say, Donald Trump, convicted felon. Sentencing at July 11th. The Republican National Convention July 15th. That is not an accident.
GLENN: I will tell you that I think that it also will be used as the excuse for Joe Biden not debating him.
I don't debate a felon. You know, yesterday, I was thinking, wow. Look, they're already moving on, to the Supreme Court.
They're already, they're moving past this. And they're moving to the Supreme Court.
I was dumb enough not to figure, wait a minute. They are launching canon balls at the ship, saying, don't you dare get involved, in this trial!
Because the Supreme Court is -- it may end up there.
JASON: Yeah. Yeah.
GLENN: And, quite honestly, this is such election tampering, they should. Make a decision, one way or another. Make a decision. But they set the message to Alito and Thomas and everybody else. Back up! Stay down.
JASON: Yeah. That's the entire point of this process, in a nutshell, is intimidation.
Telling them to back down. Do not stand in our way. I mean, this was -- I mean, not only intimidation.
This is -- I mean, this is humiliation.
Go back to Mar-a-Lago.
GLENN: Oh, not for Trump.
JASON: They went through his wife's bedroom. And logged everything meticulously.
They went through a miter child's bedroom.
And then made notes about it. That they wanted to humiliate Donald Trump. And I'm glad you talk about like this going to the Supreme Court.
This absolutely getting appealed. And taught process just for a quick second. What happens next.
This is absolutely going to get appealed. The first thing he has to go to is the sentencing.
Now, normally, in -- in a sane world, I would say, you know, he's only going to get probation.
Maybe at the very worst, like House arrest.
But is this normal?
Is this judge normal?
GLENN: No!
If they put him under house arrest, where he can't go on the campaign trail, are you out of your mind?
I mean, I keep hearing this. And I see the numbers of the people who are stepping to the plate.
I mean, people who didn't vote, and tonight like for Donald Trump, or don't like Donald Trump.
I have seen them yesterday give and commit to voting for him. There is a chance this works out, horribly.
JASON: Oh.
GLENN: However, isn't it interesting that it fits right in to one of the seven steps to a Colour Revolution. You've completely -- no matter -- even if it was a blowout.
Even if it was a blowout for Donald Trump.
You now have some illegitimate president. Because he's a felon.
JASON: Oh, yeah. And take that even further.
This goes back to process.
If they hand him down, a probation sentence.
Then that's a state level case.
So Trump can't pardon himself in a state had much level case.
But the judge can change that to a more serious sentence after other crimes have been committed.
So he still has to go through how many other trials. There's the classified docs trial.
There's the election tampering charge all that.
Those will probably come down after the election.
So they can tack on more and more. I mean, they can probably say, after that, when he gets probation. After these other crimes, he can go to jail.
GLENN: Did you see what Megyn Kelly said yesterday? What did you think of what she said?
JILL: She wants to have the retribution is what she's saying. And that's what a lot of people are saying. As Republicans out there today, if you can hear us, what are you going to do leading up to the elections, to make sure that they are free and fair?
We see what's happening. We see what they're doing to Donald Trump. So at the state level, which is all you can control now.
What are you going to be able to do, to ensure that you can give voters some peace of mind. That it's going to be legitimate going into it.
GLENN: That has to happen. Everybody has to go out, watching, and recording, and everything else.
However, what she's talking about is when you do get power, take them out. Legally, take them out.
And I'm all for that. I mean, I've been for that since Nixon. I remember my father saying to me, that he hasn't done anything at all, that the presidents do. And he just got caught.
And I remember feeling as a kid, that doesn't seem right. Why wouldn't we put a criminal in jail?
And, but a real criminal in jail. Think about this, this guy is the most investigated man in all of human history.
That is -- that is not hyperbole. Every single intelligence agency, on the planet, has gone through everything and everybody trying to find anything on this guy.
And this is all they could come up with?
I mean, I'm shocked. Quite honestly, I'm shocked. I've told them this to his face. I think you might be the cleanest guy, ever to be in the White House.
I mean, I -- how?
This is all they have on you?
That's remarkable. So they take all of this, and they can't get anything.
And so they have to make things up. And they -- and honestly, if these polls continue to be like they are, I think they'll kill him.
I really believe these people. No.
Let me just ask this. You remember when they said Sarah Palin said the word targeting?
These people 24/7, for seven years, have said, this guy is Hitler!
Hitler! What -- you don't think that there's somebody within the sound of your voice. You leftist -- people who broadcast with differing opinions than mine?
You really haven't thought, or have you?
Or have you? And you're fine with that outcome.
JASON: I think that there's been a gentleman's handshake for certain people of power, especially within the government, going back to Nixon.
Or probably before that. Where, yes. There's a law of the land. But, eh, we're not really going to enforce it on certain --
GLENN: No. You know what, I've always felt that, too.
After that, I thought, you know, it's just a gentle man's club. They're all in it.
Mike Lee said, this was -- when Hillary Clinton, you know, erased her servers. Okay?
And I said, that woman has got to go to Yale.
Mike, everyone would go to jail on that. I mean, prison. Hard-core prison for that. And he said, we don't put our political enemies. And I said, it's not just that she's a political enemy.
She's broken the law. Like six ways to Sunday. Been put our nation in peril. Because of top secret information, on our freaking server.
He said, Glenn, once you open that door, it never closes. And you become a banana republic.
JASON: And here we are today.
GLENN: And here we are today. And what did Megyn Kelly say? Get them.
JASON: Yeah.
GLENN: You know what I feel inside? Get them. Go after Hillary Clinton with everything this -- because honestly, she's right about one thing. It will never stop. Unless their hands are burned by the same fire.
Really? You think you can get away with this. Let's take a look at the Clinton foundation, in just Somalia.
Let's take a look at your gas prom leases, Hillary.
Let's reopen a few things. Oh, the statute of limitations. Well, we'll find a way around that!
JASON: They did for Trump in New York.
GLENN: They did for Trump!