Former President Donald Trump said a “breaking point” for Americans would be reached if he is sentenced to house arrest after being convicted of 34 felony offenses.

“I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday morning. “I think it’d be tough for the public to take. At a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”

The former president was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records Thursday in connection to hush money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. He is the first former president to become a convicted felon.

“It’s weaponization, and it’s a very dangerous thing. We’ve never had that in this country,” he said during the interview with Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth.

He said people understand the trial was “a scam.”

“And the Republican Party is really, they’re stuck. They stick together in this. They see — it’s weaponization of the Justice Department, of the FBI,” he said.

He slammed the Manhattan location of the case, saying it was somewhere “Republicans get virtually no votes.”

“We had probably, maybe the worst area in the whole country for me in terms of the vote. I’m sure if I sat down and explained it to that section of the world, we could probably make progress, but — one of the worst sections. And they always bring them [charges] in these sections,” he said.

“But the good news is that I think we’ve set a record beyond all records for fundraising,” he said.

The Trump camp announced last week that it had raised nearly $53 million in donations after he was convicted.

The presumptive Republican nominee said the trial was “hard” for his family.

“I have a wonderful wife who has to listen to this stuff all the time. They do that for this reason. They do that — all these salacious names that they put in of these people, and I’m not even allowed to defend myself because of the gag order,” Trump said. “In many ways, it’s tougher on my family than it is on me.”

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.