AOC reveals her biggest fear if ‘out of his mind’ Trump wins the presidential election as she warns critics to ‘take him at his word’

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shared concerns about the possibility that Donald Trump would send her to prison if he were to retake the White House in November’s presidential election.

Speak with podcast host Kara Swisher the progressive Democrat said she takes Trump “at his word.”

“I mean, it sounds crazy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy throws me in jail. He’s gone crazy. I mean, he ran his entire first campaign around “locking her up.” This is his motto,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

‘I believe him at his word when he says he is going to arrest people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word,” she continued.

“I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche of what his intentions are. He has learned from his mistakes in hiring professionals, and he won’t make that mistake next time.”

AOC’s concerns stem from Trump’s response to a question earlier this month, when he was asked during a Fox & Friends interview whether ‘revenge’ will be his ‘success’.

‘These are bad people. These people are sick, and they’re doing things that are so destructive… If it wasn’t me, they’d be going after someone else, and I know a lot of the competition,” Trump said. “They wouldn’t do very well.”

But more recently, Trump sought to allay fears that he would seek retaliation, while suggesting he would still have every right to do so.

“Number one, they’re wrong,” Trump said Sean Hannity. ‘It has to stop, otherwise we won’t have a country

“Look, when this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have every right to go after them, and that’s easy because it’s Joe Biden and you see all the crime, all the money that goes into politics. family and him, all this money from China, Russia, Ukraine.

‘She [the Democrats] wants to arrest without crime. They want to arrest the person who won the nomination in a landslide,” Trump said.

During Swisher’s podcast, she asked the New York lawmaker whether she believed Trump had a good chance of securing the White House for a second term.

“Trump definitely has a chance to win. That’s why I threw my support behind Biden early on and I support it loudly,” AOC said.

“It is unequivocal that if Donald Trump wins, we are looking at the possible dissolution of democracy in the United States of America and the question of what would happen to me or the Democratic Party is a joke compared to the question of what would happen to democracy will happen. happens to our country.’

She admitted there was a distinct lack of excitement surrounding President Biden and his campaign.

“I think when it comes to presidential elections, and especially young people, I understand the lack of support for President Biden.

‘I think that the demoralization surrounding the president has sometimes caused people to turn away from candidates who are no longer in line with their interests. And so the answer here is to get in the game, not to get out,” she said.

Trump is scheduled for a virtual mock interview on Monday after a jury in New York found him guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying company records in his “hush money” trial.

The former president will participate in the hearing from his home in Mar-a-Lago.

The probation interview is a normal process for Trump’s pre-sentencing report.

The interview is the next step in the sentencing process, as Judge Juan Merchan will sentence the former president on July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The interview will be conducted by a probation officer and Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche will be present.

After the conversation, a report will be submitted that will be submitted to the judge.

Trump faces a prison sentence of up to four years after conviction, but it is also possible that he will receive probation.

However, a successful appeal to the higher courts by Trump’s legal team could delay the sentencing decision even further.

Trump continues to rail against the verdict, appearing at a Turning Point PAC town hall in Arizona last Thursday to rally supporters behind him.

“I just went through a rigged trial in New York,” he said. “With a very conflicted judge where there was no crime, it was made up stuff, they didn’t want to bring the case, they could have brought the case seven years ago, but it’s not until you run that they bring cases,” he said .

On the plus side, Trump celebrated that he and the Republican Party had raised nearly $400 million in donations since the ruling was announced.

Trump remains ahead of Biden in two key swing states — Nevada and Arizona — but a national poll conducted after the Republican’s conviction shows the presidential race is tightening.

Fox news released new polling numbers Thursday showing Trump up 5 points among registered voters in Arizona — 51 percent to Biden’s 46 percent.

In nearby Nevada, Trump also led Biden by 5 points — 50 percent to the Democrat’s 45 percent.

Polls show Trump already has more than a year’s lead over Biden in Arizona while Trump has been ahead of Biden in Nevada since November, according to Real Clear Politics polling averages – with the verdict seemingly having no effect on the numbers.

Pollsters asked just two questions about the process — whether voters thought it was fair and how much they cared about it — the last to indicate whether it would change people’s votes.

In Arizona, 63 percent said the hush-money lawsuit did not matter, while only about a third, 36 percent, said it did.

Furthermore, only 25 percent said it was “very important” to them.