Trump Threatens To Flee The Country If He Loses Election

Donald Trump made a claim during his recent (disastrous) interview with Elon Musk about how he could flee the country if he doesn’t win the 2024 election. He made a comment about moving to Venezuela since it would be “safer” than living in the United States. But it isn’t immigration that Trump is actually worried about – he’s worried about the possibility of spending years behind bars. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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During his absolutely bonkers interview with Elon Musk on Twitter on Monday night, Donald Trump actually admitted something that could stressing the word, could not will, but could end up literally landing him in jail. Here is what Donald Trump said that legal experts immediately flagged as showing that Donald Trump is clearly a flight risk. Trump said, quote, if something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we'll meet the next time in Venezuela because it'll be a far safer place to meet than our country. Okay? So we'll go. You and I will go and we'll have a meeting in dinner in Venezuela.

Now, there is more, there's a little more context, and I'm gonna read you that in a minute. But here's the thing. Donald Trump is currently out on bail, okay, he is a convicted felon that is awaiting sentencing on September 18th, because yes, that is still on the docket has not changed yet. It may, but it hasn't yet. So if any of these other places, including New York where he was convicted, but if any of them decide that, hey, this statement means Donald Trump is a flight risk, they can go to the judge, including in places where he is only been indicted. They can go to the courts and say, listen, this man is threatening to leave the country. If he doesn't win this year's election, our trial is not gonna take place before the election. We're afraid at this point, he's a flight risk. I mean, because if we look at the polls right now, he's, he's not winning this election.

He could flee the country before we're able to prosecute him. He could flee the country before we're able to sentence him. We want to have his bond revoked. This statement, even with the additional context I'm about to give, you could easily be seen by a court as a threat that Donald Trump knows if he doesn't win the election, jail is already likely his next stop. So he is telling us he's going to leave the country. Yeah, I think that's a pretty easy case to make in court. But as I said, there's a little bit extra context here. 'cause Trump did continue. He said, talking of Venezuela, the crime rate is coming down and our crime rate is going through the roof. That's a lie. Before I continue, let me point out, that is a lie. The crime rate in the United States is actually going down and has been for the last year and a half. And it's so simple and you haven't seen anything yet because these people have come into our country and they're just getting acclimated and they don't know about being politically correct, law enforcement or lack of law enforcement and our police. I have to just end with this. We have great police. I'll tell you what, Venezuela has not gotten rid of all of them. They've gotten rid of about 70% of their really bad people.

Their jails are about 50% put into the United States. Same with the other countries. Over 30%, some are at 50%, they're all different. But the bottom line is they're all going to be 100%. Why wouldn't you put 100% of it? Now, aside from that being an insane statement, that is completely based in Donald Trump's fantasy world, it also makes no sense. Like his sentences, the words he's saying do not make sense because Donald Trump's trying to cover up what he said. That's why it doesn't make sense. That's why it's not rooted in reality, because Donald Trump's not thinking of going to Venezuela because, oh, well they've sent their bad people here, so their country must be nice. No, the reason Venezuela's crime rate is actually falling is not because they've sent everybody here. There is literally no evidence to back up any of those claims that Trump makes.