Satellite radio host and frequent cable news contributor Dean Obeidallah had plenty to say after insinuating that Donald Trump looked frail in South Dakota on Friday.
Taking to social media, the lawyer-turned-pundit declared that, while he despises Trump, he didn't “want him to die UNTIL he is tried, convicted and sentenced to prison.”
“Trump must die in prison as a warning to all who attempt a coup that you will face [the] same fate,” he added.
During the most recent episode of “The Dean Obeidallah Show,” the host argued that Trump deserves to spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
When prompted by Mediaite's Tommy Christopher to imagine how the media would react if Joe Biden were to ask undecided voters whether they would be proud to vote for a candidate who may soon be incarcerated, Obeidallah went on a rant against the former president, and current GOP front-runner, and why he should face legal consequences for his actions.
Mediaite has the transcript:
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: No, I think Donald Trump I think Donald Trump MUST die in prison because I don't care if he was 45 years old. You should get life in prison if you attempt a coup, and there should be no chance of parole. I don't care who it is. That's why I think Donald Trump or anyone else in terms of who must die in jail, because either we're going to protect the Democratic Republic or we're going to allow people in this case, Trump to chip away at our democracy and chip away at what we believe in these institutions. That's why I'm so passionate about, like with every fiber of my being, that Donald Trump has to live out his natural days, his last days of natural life in a prison cell.
It's important to say to everyone, You can't do this. That's why it so outrages me now, when Ron DeSantis was on Newsmax a few days ago saying, Oh, we're going to look at pardons for the Proud Boys, like Trump said, this is outrageous. These people plotted an attack. The prosecution laid out the case. They began plotting right after the election. When Trump said the election was stolen, they brought their people there. They had 200 people there at ten in the morning, way before Trump's speech down by the Capitol, because they had plotted how they were going to attack the Capitol. And they did that to stop the certification. And that's why they were convicted of seditious conspiracy, just one step below treason.
And the idea that Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump are going to pardon them to me again, that is on the border of being treasonous, these people attacked our Capitol to prevent the certification of election. So I'm pretty clear where I go. And people accuse me like, oh, you say things that get people riled up like, nope, I or get what you said. I get organically riled up about this because I believe in this system. And, and if you don't believe in it, so be it. But if you believe in it, I don't think there's any conclusion could bring that. Donald Trump has to end up in a prison cell and live his last days out in that prison cell.
“But you don't think he's going to get murdered in prison?” Christopher interjected.
“No, I think he'll be highly protected. Highly protected, he's going to a Secret Service. He might. I know. Frank Figliuzzi said to me he thinks they'd put him in Supermax because people think Supermax is to protect America from those criminals. That's part of it,” Obeidallah said, adding, “[It] also protects those criminals from other bad people in jail. You want them to serve out their term.”
Obeidallah has made similar statements in the past. He often adds that he doesn't want to see Trump murdered but die of natural causes in prison.
He's also made provocative comments about Trump supporters, comparing them to terrorist sympathizers on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
“At this point I LITERALLY view people who still support Donald Trump no different than the despicable, vile people who supported Bin Laden after 9/11,” he posted last year.
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