Former US President Donald Trump has warned that if he is sentenced to prison after the historic verdict, it could be a "tipping point" for his supporters.
Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday on Fox News that he personally is "okay with" the idea of being in prison for the 34 felonies he was found guilty of for making secret payments to a porn actress.
"I think it would be difficult for the public to accept that. You know that at a certain point there is a tipping point," the former president said.
He said the trial had been "very hard" on his wife Melania, who was conspicuously absent from the trial attended by other close family members.
While his three grown children attended the final days of the trial, Melania was absent throughout. She has also been barely involved in her husband's White House campaign, has not appeared at any of Trump's rallies and rarely joins him in public.
"She's fine, but I think it's very difficult for her," Trump told Fox News, adding that "she had to read all that garbage."
"I think it's probably in a lot of ways, harder on my family than it is on me," he added.
A jury on Thursday convicted Trump of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the final stages of the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up a sex scandal involving porn star Stormy Daniels.
It is the first criminal conviction against a former president in the history of the USA, which means that Trump will go to the presidential elections on November 5 as a felon.
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