Friday, August 25, 2023

Sarah Palin Says US Civil War ‘Is Going to Happen’ over Trump Prosecutions

THE GUARDIAN: Former vice-presidential nominee condemns prosecutors over ‘travesty’ and says ‘we’re not going to keep putting up with this’

Sarah Palin outside court in New York in February last year. Palin was governor of Alaska when John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008. Photograph: Lev Radin/Zuma/Rex

A second US civil war is “going to happen” if state and federal authorities continue to prosecute Donald Trump, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said.

“Those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice, I want to ask them what the heck, do you do want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen,” Palin told Newsmax on Thursday night.

“We’re not going to keep putting up with this.”

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