Trump threatens 'long term prison sentences' for those caught cheating in election

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 September 8, 2024

Former President Donald Trump will learn in November whether he will go to jail in New York over his conviction for falsifying business records.

Yet in a recent social media post, the former president insisted that fraudsters will be the ones facing prison sentences. 

Cheaters "will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law"

According to NBC News, Trump made the threat as part of a Truth Social post on Saturday in which he promised to fight for election integrity.

"The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again," he wrote.

"Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, [and] Corrupt Election Officials," Trump continued.

Trump calls on supporters to make vote "too big to rig"

"Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country," he added.

NBC News noted that the Republican nominee also addressed the issue of election integrity when speaking to supporters at an event in Wisconsin this weekend.

"We gotta stop the cheating. If we stop that cheating, if we don't let them cheat, I don't even have to campaign anymore," NBC News quoted him as saying.

"We're going to win by so much," the former president went on to predict before adding, "In the meantime, too big to rig, too big to rig."

Former president goes after Mark Zuckerberg in new book

Meanwhile, NBC News also reported that Trump returned to the theme of secure voting in a book released earlier this month called "Save America."

It included a warning that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg "will spend the rest of his life in prison" should he do "anything illegal" in connection with this year's vote.

As Fox News noted, Zuckerberg admitted last month that Facebook suppressed a Trump campaign ad in 2020 on the grounds that it violated the platform's policy on Covid misinformation.

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