Former President Trump criticized the guilty verdict he was handed in the New York criminal case against him on Sunday during an interview with "Fox & Friends Weekend."
"It's weaponization, and it's a very dangerous thing. We've never had that in this country," he said during the exclusive interview.
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records on Thursday.
"People get it. It's a scam," he said, speaking of the trial. "And the Republican Party… they've stuck together in this. They see it's a weaponization of the Justice Department of the FBI and that's all coming out of Washington."
Former President Donald Trump spoke to Fox News Digital on Sunday after he was found guilty in New York. (Fox News)
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The interview—which was led by co-hosts Pete Hegseth, Will Cain, and Rachel Campos-Duffy, aired in pieces throughout the show on Sunday—called on the GOP frontrunnner to weigh the political landscape following the conviction.
One Daily Mail poll, for instance, gave Trump a six-point bump in approval in the immediate aftermath.