Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed fear about the possibility of former President Donald Trump imprisoning her if he emerges victorious in the November election. During an episode of the podcast On with Kara Swisher, the Congresswoman shared her concerns with host Kara Swisher.
“I mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail,” she said. “He’s out of his mind. I mean, he did his whole first campaign around ‘lock her up.’ This is his motto.”
Ocasio-Cortez emphasized that Trump will “round up people” if elected president.
“I take him at his word when he says that he’s going to round up people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word,” she said. “I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche to what his intentions are. He has learned from his mistakes of appointing professionals, and he will not make that mistake next time.”
The congresswoman from New York expressed her belief that Trump has a genuine opportunity to secure a win against Biden when questioned about his chances in November.
“Trump does absolutely have a chance to win. That is why I have thrown my support behind Biden early and I support it vociferously,” she said. “It is unequivocal that if Donald Trump wins, we are looking at the potential dissolution of democracy in the United States of America and the question about what would happen to me or the Democratic Party is a joke compared to the question of what is going to happen to our country.”
Despite previously stating that he would be his supporters’ “retribution,” the ex-president recently emphasized in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News that he does not intend to exacerbate the division within the nation.
“Number one, they’re wrong,” Trump told Hannity. “It has to stop, because otherwise, we’re not going to 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 it’s easy, because it’s Joe Biden and you see all the criminality, all of the money that’s going into the family and him, all of this money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine.”
