Megyn Kelly Issues Dire Warning About What’s To Come If Trump Gets Jailed Before Election Day: ‘The Country Will Burn’

Podcast host Megyn Kelly issued a warning to listeners, claiming that “the country will burn,” if former President Donald Trump is jailed before the 2024 election.

“I don’t think anybody thinks anything really changed as a result of last night so once again, Trump won because if nothing changed, he’s the winner, he’s 50 points ahead,” Kelly said during Thursday’s episode of her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

Kelly had, just the day before, moderated the fourth GOP debate, which Trump was notably absent from, as he has been in the three preceding debates. However, Trump’s poll numbers indicate that the candidates who were in attendance, namely Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie, were vying for the second place spot in the primary. 

“There will be riots, the country will burn if she sends him to jail prior to November 2024, and Andy, he’s the smartest guy we all know, is saying ‘Don’t rule it out.’ So where do we go from this day to that?” Kelly asked National Review editor in chief Rich Lowry and senior political correspondent Jim Geraghty.

Kelly spoke in reference to the election interference case against the former president. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is currently deciding whether Trump can be accused of engaging in a criminal “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 election. 

Kelly also pointed to the National Review’s recent editorial by Andy McCarthy in which McCarthy discusses Chutkan’s recent ruling that Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution and states that a conviction against the former president is a “distinct possibility” that “could determine the viability of Trump’s 2024 presidential bid.”

“Chutkan might not let Trump go free on bond when he is likely convicted in that federal case in DC,” Kelly added.

This comes as Trump faces almost 100 charges in four separate cases, including one accusing him of heading up a $250 million fraud scheme, another accusing him of improper retention of national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a third relating to his actions in the wake of the 2020 election and finally his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol incident.

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