Michael Knowles: “Judge Merchan, if you're listening right now, I'm begging you, please throw Trump in jail”
Knowles: “I hope they do it. If they do it, Donald Trump will win 57 states. Any state that has an even remotely fair election system, Donald Trump will win it if they throw this guy in jail for speaking during a presidential campaign.”
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Citation From the April 26, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): He's restricted. They're not letting the Republican nominee for president speak about the political persecution that they are inflicting on him in the heat of the campaign for president. That's absurd. Yet another reason why we have generally refrained from prosecuting presidents and leaders of the opposition in the United States. Now, however, the Democrats blow up that constitutional norm. So what does he do? Does a very Trump thing. He goes out, he holds a press conference, he says, look, I'm not allowed to say anything. I'm here to tell you something very important, but I can't say it actually. I'm here to tell you that I can't tell you anything because this crooked Democrat judge is not allowing him to speak because the crooked Democrat establishment is prosecuting him, because the crooked Democrat establishment knows that if it were a fair fight, he would win the presidency. That's what it's all about. And he's -- so he's telling you that by saying that he is not allowed to tell you anything at all.
The judge doesn't like this. The Democrats, broadly, don't like this. So they're threatening to throw him in jail if he speaks about relevant political matters during his presidential campaign. I hope they do it. I hope they do it. If they do it, Donald Trump will win 57 states. Any state that has an even remotely fair election system, Donald Trump will win it if they throw this guy in jail for speaking during a presidential campaign. The political order will not tolerate that. Our political order is pretty far decayed. It is a far cry from what it was two hundred, a hundred, even fifty years ago. That is a bridge too far. Jailing major — the last time we did this was a hundred years ago. Woodrow Wilson jailed his socialist opponent, Eugene Debs. And and even then, Debs was a minor candidate. He — I think he got, what, 8 percent of the vote or something. He was still the socialist candidate. You're talking about one of the two major party nominees for president.
You're gonna throw him in jail for speaking on political matters during a campaign? We're not that far gone yet. We're not quite in Putin's Russia yet. We're not quite in Xi's China yet. We're not — I dare you. I hope they keep playing this game of chicken. Donald Trump is not the kind of guy I'd want to play chicken with, but, please, Judge Merchan, if you're listening right now, I'm begging you, please throw Trump in jail. Please. The Democrats aren't gonna win dog catcher in San Francisco if you throw Trump in jail. Be my guest. Make my day.