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Trump Supporters Suggest American Justice System Compromised Following Trump's Guilty Verdict

Tucker Carlson: 'He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first'

Published: May 30, 2024
  |   By Chris Bertman
Trump Supporters Suggest American Justice System Compromised Following Trump's Guilty Verdict

Social media erupted with supporters and critics of former President Donald Trump responding to his unprecedented guilty verdict regarding his "hush money" trial in Manhattan.


After a six-week trial, the Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

President Joe Biden's campaign remarked on Trump's guilty verdict in a statement shared to X.

"In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law," Biden's campaign wrote. "Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today's verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality."


"There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box," they added.



Biden's campaign warned Trump will be the Republican nominee for president regardless of his guilty verdict.

"The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater," their statement continued. "He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator 'on day one' and calling for our Constitution to be 'terminated' so he can regain and keep power. A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans' freedoms and fomenting political violence — and the American people will reject it this November."


A series of Trump supporters lamented the verdict and suggested the American justice system had been compromised.

"Import the Third World, become the Third World. That's what we just saw," wrote Tucker Carlson in an X post. "This won't stop Trump."

Carlson said a second Trump term in office was imminent following his guilty verdict, unless the former president was killed before the election.



"It does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world," he continued. "Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family."

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who teamed up with Trump after suspending his own presidential campaign, similarly remarked on the American justice system in response to Trump's guilty verdict.

"Trump led criminal justice reform. Now he’s suffering criminal *injustice* at the highest level," Ramaswamy wrote, suggesting the former president would see an influx of black voters turning out for him this November in response to the guilty verdict. "I didn’t think the Democrat Party would be so dumb, but here we are."



In another post, Ramaswamy remarked on irregularities with prominent figures surrounding Trump's trial including Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, along with Judge Juan M. Merchan and his daughter Loren.

"The prosecutor is a politician who promised to nail Trump," Ramaswamy wrote of Bragg's campaign promise.



"The judge’s daughter is a Democrat operative who literally *raised $$ from the trial* while her father presided over it," Ramaswamy added. "The jury instructions said they didn’t have to agree on the crime to convict."

"This will backfire," he added.

Attorney Mike Cernovich referred to Trump's guilty verdict as a "September 11th level attack."

"Today was a terrorist bomb detonated on our legal system," he wrote.



Prior to the guilty verdict announcement, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who is currently the Republican candidate for one of Maryland's Senate seats, took an opposing view compared to his Republican colleagues.

"Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process," he wrote. "At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship."



"We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law," he added.

Author and pundit Ann Coulter, who previously was an ardent supporter of Trump but expressed growing criticism of the former president in recent years, said "These idiot liberals may have just gotten Trump elected."



Former ESPN personality Keith Olbermann, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, said Democrats must refer to Trump as a "Convicted Felon and Republican Presidential Nominee."


Fellow Trump critic Brian Krassenstein similarly remarked on Trump "officially" being referred to as a convicted felon.

"You are either now planning to vote for a convicted felon for president or you are not," Krassenstein wrote. "Stop pretending that the side that is NOT voting for the felon is the crazy one. If I asked any American in 2016 whether they would vote for a CONVICTED FELON, 99.9% would have said 'HECK NO!'"



Krassenstein went on to insist Trump supporters had changed, not the American justice system.

Anti-Trump Republican coalition The Lincoln Project suggested Trump may not be permitted to vote in the upcoming election.

"Random fact: felons can't vote in the state of Florida," the group wrote.



Former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, another outspoken Republican critic of Trump who served on the committee investigating January 6th, said Trump's guilty verdict was "absolutely correct."

"I look forward to more guilty verdicts when the federal cases move forward," he wrote. "Trump is now a felon."



Shortly after being delivered his guilty verdict, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told the press outside the court, "I am a very innocent man."

“This was a disgrace, this was a rigged trial,” Trump asserted. “Our whole country is being rigged right now. This is being done by the Biden Administration in order to hurt or wound a political opponent.”

The former president said that the "real verdict" will be decided by voters in November.

“And we’ll keep fighting. We’ll fight till the end and we’ll win because our country has gone to hell. We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess. We’re a nation in decline, serious decline, millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now, from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists, and they’re taking over our country,” Trump said.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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