On Thursday, in an interview with right-wing talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, former President Donald Trump appeared to issue a vague threat to the Justice Department against indicting him.

Trump said that “I would have no prohibition against running,” when he asked whether he would still run for office with an indictment.

“I think, if it happened, you’d have problems in this country the likes of which, perhaps, you have ever seen before,” said Trump. “I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.”

When Hewitt asked Trump to elaborate, he said, “Big problems.”

“I just don’t think they’d stand for it,” he added. “They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes.”

Additionally, Trump defended some aspects of his allies’ plot to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, one of the key issues under investigation by the Justice Department, by claiming that it is “very common” for states to have a competing slate of “alternate” electors claiming the other candidate won. This is not true.

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