Former President Donald Trump will sit down with Dr. Phil for an interview to be released later this week.
The television host, whose full name is Phil McGraw, said he recently polled his audience and found that Trump’s guilty verdict did not change their views on the former president. Ahead of his interview with Trump, which the former president’s campaign confirmed to the Washington Examiner, McGraw said he plans to push for both political parties to stop seeking retribution and revenge against each other.
“It’s like, ‘Hey, it’s over. It’s time for forgiveness, putting this behind us. I’m not going to start charging everybody on the other side.’ That needs to stop,” McGraw said when talking about a Trump presidency. “We don’t need to be weaponizing the justice system. We need to put this behind us and get back to making America the shining country on the hill that everybody aspires to be. We don’t need this. This needs to stop.”
McGraw also discussed the political climate in Monday’s episode and asked his audience to contact their lawmakers to end the division between the parties in an effort to save the country. He also stressed the need for the justice system to provide true justice rather than running “the political agendas of those currently in power.”
He addressed people who dislike Trump and President Joe Biden, arguing that the crisis the country faces is bigger than the feelings one might have toward either of them.
“We need leaders who will pledge to end this vicious cycle right now and return us to that safe place where our institutions are no longer bastardized and weaponized but rather simply serve their intended purpose,” McGraw said. “We have serious problems to solve, and it will take serious people to solve it.”
I don’t advocate voting for one candidate over another.
I stay in my lane, addressing human behavior collectively and culturally, focusing on how we can have maximum control in our lives and turn this ship of state called America in the right direction, getting her back on… pic.twitter.com/tsob0o31V2
— Dr. Phil (@DrPhil) June 4, 2024
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Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony crime after he was found guilty of all 34 counts in his hush money trial on Thursday. The move has been greatly condemned by Republican lawmakers, with some arguing that the legal battle was politically motivated.
Despite this, Trump is carrying forward with his presidential campaign, with the recent conviction providing a boost in fundraising for him. Other Republican lawmakers have similarly seen a boost in fundraising in the wake of the former president’s verdict.