Former President Donald Trump The 2020 presidential candidate is expected to surrender himself to authorities on Thursday and be arrested for multiple crimes relating to his involvement in the election. Georgia presidential election tampering case.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump expressed his anger at the Georgia District Attorney who had indicted Trump before turning himself in.
“The district attorney, Fani, Fani Willis, in Atlanta, she’s getting killed,” Trump said in the interview. “I got indicted four times. All trivia and nonsense.”
Trump’s interview with Carlson was timed to draw viewers away from Wednesday’s Republican primary debate on Fox News.
When Carlson asked the former president if he thinks the nation is moving towards a civil war, Trump had this to say: “There’s a level of passion that I’ve never seen. There’s a level of hatred that I’ve never seen.”
Trump is promoting the claim that the interview garnered over 200 million views, but Vanity Fair special correspondent Brian Stelter explains it’s not what it seems.
“It counts as a view if you just scroll by for one second,” Stelter tells Inside Edition. “Trump is out there claiming his interview overshadowed the debate but that’s just hogwash.”
Trump’s surrender is likely to involve a mugshot, like his other co-defendants Jenna Ellis and Rudy GiulianiThe bail bondsman made his $150,000 bond.
Trump will be weighed. He was 239 pounds when he served as president.
“To be arrested, to be mugshotted, that is not a win. That is not a good night for anyone, even the former president who wants to claim he is being persecuted,” Stelter says.