Who was he going to run to? There want anyone in the government or their media partners to run to.
Had he stated he’d be in the DC prison or SuperMax rotting away, if not worse.
They wouldn’t have let any of that see the light of day
Look at what they did with the Epstein stuff….
https://thepostmillennial.com/flashback-abc-news-killed-the-jeffery-epstein-story
There would have been an all out disinformation campaign and it would have disappeared.
Believe that or not, today he could easily raise the money from supporters to hire the best defense lawyers out there. And every aspect of his prosecution would be public.
The simple fact is he broke the law and he knows it. It wouldn’t take some government conspiracy to convict him.
He wants an exception because he feels his lawbreaking was justified, and who knows, a jury may agree, but there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t get a fair trial