RFK Jr. warns Trump conviction will 'backfire' on Democrats and is 'bad for our democracy'

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2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a stark warning against Trump's guilty conviction, arguing the verdict will "backfire" on the Democratic Party as many voters see the trial outcome as a weaponization of America's judicial system.

Kennedy reacted to the news that former President Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts during "Jesse Watters Primetime," where he explained how the conviction is harmful to the nation's democratic process.

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"This conviction is going to backfire on the Democrats," Kennedy told Watters on Thursday. "I think every time that President Trump has been indicted, that his approval ratings actually increase, his popularity increases. I think there's a large number of Americans who are going to see this as the politicization… the weaponization of the enforcement agencies, and I think it's going to hurt. It's bad for our democracy."

"The DNC feels like it's like it has a candidate that cannot win fair and square in the polls, and so they have to win in the courts," he continued. "They have to win by clearing the deck and getting their other opponents out of the race. I'm not a fan of President Trump's, but I want to win. I want to beat him in a campaign on a level playing field."

Trump was found guilty on all counts in his historic and