Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director under former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he expects Trump to lose the presidential election but does not expect him to incite an insurrection. .
“It's too close to tell,” Scaramucci told host Dean Obidala on SiriusXM when asked what the outcome of Trump's election would be. “I think she will win because she has the money and the organization and I think there are better people in this country.”
“I think he's going to lose,” Scaramucci said.
Scaramucci, who has become a fierce critic of President Trump in recent years, said he disagreed with experts who fear there could be political violence if Trump loses the election in the next two weeks. Ta.
The former aide pointed to President Trump's ruling in a New York criminal case last year that resulted in Trump's decision to protect Americans from potentially damaging information ahead of the presidential election as part of a broader plan to protect Americans from potentially damaging information ahead of the presidential election. , was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. 2016 Election.
“The paradoxical view is that even if he loses, he will not try to incite a violent revolution or riot because he will be sentenced on November 26th,” Scaramucci said. spoke. “Three weeks after the election, he must stand before a judge and be sentenced on 34 felonies.”
Scaramucci said a judge could impose a harsher sentence if Trump encouraged violence after losing the election.
“If he incites violence within three weeks after the election, they're going to put him in jail. There's no question in my mind about that,” Scaramucci said of Trump. “If he didn't do that and just snuck off and said, 'I'm not going to admit defeat, but I'm not advocating violence,' they wouldn't put him in jail.” Even if they're bad people, they don't want to go to jail.”
“But if he goes outside blowing a dog whistle and says, 'I want you to shoot my neighbor who didn't vote for me,' and commits violence on the streets of America, he goes straight to prison,” he said. Added.
Hill called on the Trump campaign to respond.
