NBC News reports:
From Donald Trump’s perspective, his upcoming sentencing in the New York hush money case should include jail time.
A spokesperson for his 2024 campaign commented this week on reports of a Trump clemency recipient being convicted of a domestic violence-related charge by saying, “President Trump believes anyone convicted of a crime should spend time behind bars.”
The statement from Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, to The New York Times was in response to a new conviction of Jaime A. Davidson, whose sentence Trump commuted in 2021. Trump was convicted in May by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 18.
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The Trump campaign says the former president, who was convicted this year in a New York hush money case, believes “anyone convicted of a crime” should be jailed. https://t.co/FPE5yDBQs6
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