{"id":2264271,"date":"2024-06-10T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shock-theater-aoc-is-worried-trump-will-throw-her-in-jail-if-he-wins\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:14:23","slug":"shock-theater-aoc-is-worried-trump-will-throw-her-in-jail-if-he-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shock-theater-aoc-is-worried-trump-will-throw-her-in-jail-if-he-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Fears Trump May Imprison Her if He&#8217;s Reelected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshock-theater-aoc-is-worried-trump-will-throw-her-in-jail-if-he-wins%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2264271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed concerns on Kara Swisher&#8217;s podcast that former President Donald Trump\u2062 might imprison her if he were reelected. She referenced Trump&#8217;s 2016 \u200bcampaign rhetoric of \u200b&#8221;lock her up&#8221; directed at Hillary Clinton as an indication\u200d of his willingness to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-obama-biden-doj-was-politicized-and-weaponized-against-opponents\/\" title=\"Sen. Cruz: Obama-Biden DOJ was \u2018politicized and weaponized\u2019 against opponents\">target political opponents<\/a>. Ocasio-Cortez argued that Trump&#8217;s previous behaviors and threats toward dissenters and journalists suggest he could take more \u2062extreme actions if given another\u2064 term \u2064in\u200d office. She believes that Trump would avoid \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-strikes-fear-in-aoc-says-she-might-get-jail-time-during-absurd-meltdown-hes-out-of-his-mind\/\" title=\"Trump Alarms AOC, Claims She Could Face Jail in Bizarre Outburst - 'He's Lost It!\">appointing professionals<\/a> who could counteract such\u2064 measures in the future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she was worried that former President Donald Trump might throw her in jail if he were to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-working-class-gop-a-muddled-concept\/\" title=\"The Working-Class GOP: A Muddled Concept\">win reelection<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Congresswoman made an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/on-with-kara-swisher-aoc-interview-ai-gaza-insults-and-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kara Swisher\u2019s podcast<\/a>, \u201cOn with Kara Swisher,\u201d and she claimed \u2014 among other things \u2014 that Trump had run his entire 2016 campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the promise to \u201clock her up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez then went on to argue that since Trump had promised to lock Clinton up \u2014 in spite of the fact that he ultimately did not make an effort while president to do so \u2014 he could be reasonably expected to round up anyone who disagreed with him and throw them in jail if he was elected again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail. He\u2019s out of his mind. I mean, he did his whole first campaign around \u2018lock her up.\u2019 This is his motto,\u201d she claimed. \u201cI take him at his word when he says that he\u2019s going to round up people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word. I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche to what his intentions are. He has learned from his mistakes of appointing professionals, and he will not make that mistake next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, as Fox News Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/aoc-frets-donald-trump-would-throw-her-jail-he-wins-hes-out-his-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, recently told host Sean Hannity that he did not plan to use the Justice Department against even President Joe Biden if he were to win in November, despite a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">people claiming<\/a> that he would.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumber one, they\u2019re wrong. It has to stop, because otherwise, we\u2019re not going to have a country,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, when this election is over, based on what they\u2019ve done, I would have every right to go after them, and it\u2019s easy, because it\u2019s Joe Biden and you see all the criminality, all of the money that\u2019s going into the family and him, all of this money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-war-is-over-nigel-farage-on-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union-announcing-they-finally-have-come-to-an-agreement\/\" title=\"\u201cThe War Is Over\u201d \u2013 Nigel Farage On The United Kingdom and the European Union Announcing They Finally Have Come to an Agreement\">previously claimed<\/a> that her critics wished they could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-lashes-out-at-critics-after-being-caught-in-florida-republicans-are-mad-they-cant-date-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">date her<\/a> \u2014 was off base in claiming that Trump would throw her in jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what you call shock theater. Without evidence, @AOC alleged that Donald Trump would throw her in jail if he wins the election,\u201d Gianno Caldwell posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what you call shock theater. Without evidence, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> alleged that Donald Trump would throw her in jail if he wins the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpuDuzdNhC\">https:\/\/t.co\/qpuDuzdNhC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gianno Caldwell (@GiannoCaldwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiannoCaldwell\/status\/1799921231506071576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cShe takes Trump \u2018at his word\u2019 for threats he\u2019s not made, but ones AOC has imagined: \u2018I take him at his word when he says that he\u2019s going to round up people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word,\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez said,\u201d Brian Doherty <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BDOH\/status\/1800143757918302348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed concerns on Kara Swisher\u2019s podcast about the possibility of being jailed by Donald Trump if he wins reelection. The New York Congresswoman discussed various issues, highlighting her fears about Trump&#8217;s potential return to power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2264272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2092445464-scaled-e1710958979614.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-2092445464-scaled-e1710958979614.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}