'Haul out the guillotine': Trump unveils disturbing new campaign message

Former President Donald Trump has a disturbing new campaign cash-grab demand: "Haul out the guillotine."

Trump warned heads will roll following his criminal conviction on felony charges in New York City in a campaign fundraising email shared on X Wednesday morning by CNN anchor Jim Acosta.

"They want me BEHEADED after this verdict," Trump's email declare. "And it's not just me they want gone, THEY'RE REALLY COMING AFTER YOU!"

This message comes about one month before Trump is slated to be sentenced in Manhattan criminal court on 34 charges of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

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It remains unclear if Justice Juan Merchan will sentence the presumptive Republican nominee in the upcoming presidential election to serve time in prison.

Falsifying business records is a class E felony which does not require jail time and, coincidentally, caps sentencing to the length of a presidential term: four years.

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The guillotine — the notorious execution device that loomed over the French Revolution and removed the heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette — does not appear in New York state's penal code.

It does appear in a Rolling Stone report from February 2023 in which anonymous sources say Trump had discussed with his staff the possibility of firing squads, mass executions and guillotines.

When Trump's campaign message hit social media Wednesday, Acosta's followers professed themselves stunned.

"Calling for violence once again is rhetoric from a violent man leading a blood thirsty cult," replied X user Suzanne Lamminen. "Will it ever stop or must it advance to an inevitable conclusion?"