Former President Donald Trump indicated that he would accept a harsh sentence after his conviction last week in a New York hush money trial that he has derided as a “scam” and refuses to employ a legal strategy in which he grovels for mercy. “I’m okay with it,” Trump said when asked about the potential of house arrest or even jail during a “Fox & Friends Weekend” interview that aired on Sunday. “I saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, ‘Oh, no, you don’t want to do that to the president.’ I said, don’t, you know, beg for anything. It’s just the way it is.” Trump on a potential prison sentence : "I'm ok with it" Says he told his lawyer not to show weakness and beg the judge. This man has no fear. pic.twitter.com/srstiQFAA7 — johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 2, 2024 Acknowledging it “could happen,” Trump went on to say, “I don’t know that the public would stand for it, you know.” Trump also said, “I think it’d be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.” A jury returned a guilty verdict against Trump on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up payments in a bid to conceal a tryst with adult film star Stormy Daniels as part of a “catch-and-kill” scheme to influence the 2016 election. Jail time is possible, though legal experts doubt Trump will end up behind bars. Trump, who denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to the charges, has said he would be “appealing this scam” — a critique he repeated in the middle of the Fox News interview as he noted his competitive poll numbers and staggering fundraising haul after the verdict. “People get it. It’s a scam,” Trump said during the interview. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Three other criminal matters on the state and federal levels hang over Trump as he seeks re-election this year, prompting the former president to say he is the victim of a politically motivated “witch hunt.” It is unclear whether any of those will reach the trial stage before the November election, but Trump can run despite a conviction. During the interview, Trump also lamented a gag order the presiding judge levied against him. He also said it was “terrible” when asked to respond to President Joe Biden smirking when a reporter asked him to respond to Trump calling himself a “political prisoner” and blaming Biden “directly” for how he was being treated. "Donald Trump refers to himself as a political prisoner and blames you directly. What's your response to that, sir?" BIDEN (CONFUSED): *stops* *smirks* *shuffles away* pic.twitter.com/0GKm327Qy1 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 31, 2024 Trump called Biden “the worst president in the history of this country, and he’s a danger to the country.” He added, “They have misinformation. ‘Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.’ It’s just words. He doesn’t even know what it means. But it’s like their slogan: I’m a threat to democracy. I’m the opposite. They’re the threat to democracy.” RELATED: Trump Raises Staggering Sum Of Cash In 24 Hours Since Verdict

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When a meteorite smashed into Mars eleven million years ago, pieces of the Red Planet hurtled into space—and some of them landed on Earth in the form of meteorites, depositing unparalleled evidence of the planet’s makeup. Now, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have released a report after their detailed study […] The post Meteorites From Mars Found on Earth Provide Unprecedented Insight into Red Planet appeared first on Good News Network.

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A Chinese spacecraft has successfully landed on the far side of the moon to gather soil and rock samples, according to the Associated Press. The goal of the mission is to learn more about the substances on the lesser-known side of the moon.The landing module touched down on Sunday at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time. It made contact with the moon in a huge crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration. The report mentioned the landing represents the sixth mission in the Chang'e moon exploration program. In 2020, the Chang'e 5 successfully retrieved samples from the near side of the moon. The moon has become a point of rivalry for several countries. While the U.S. still leads the way in space exploration, Japan and India are also devoting resources to space. China has sent out its own space station, and crew members are often sent there.The New York Post reported that China, an emerging global power, has set its sights on sending an astronaut to the moon before 2030. If they are successful, they would be just the second nation to do so after the U.S.The U.S. also wishes to send astronauts to the moon again. It would be the first time in more than 50 years since someone stepped foot on Earth's lunar neighbor. While the date was initially sooner, NASA announced that the U.S. hopes to have someone on the moon in 2026.Reuters reported that Neil Melville-Kenney, a technical officer at the European Space Agency who worked with China on one of the Chang'e-6 payloads, said: "Landing on the far side of the moon is very difficult because you don’t have line-of-sight communications, you’re relying on a lot of links in the chain to control what is going on, or you have to automate what is going on.""Automation is very difficult especially at high latitudes because you have long shadows which can be very confusing for landers," he added.The Chang'e 6 probe was launched on May 3 on China's Long March 5 rocket, according to reports. It reached the lunar area around a week later before shortening its orbit in preparation for landing.Missions to the far side of the moon are especially challenging because it does not face the Earth. Consequently, astronauts are forced to use a relay satellite to maintain communications.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!