Former President Donald Trump offered his thoughts over the weekend on Alex Murdaugh being sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and youngest son.
Trump was asked about the double-murder conviction, which was handed down Friday, during a brief gaggle with reporters before his keynote address at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Coalition in National Harbor, Maryland. Murdaugh, the disgraced patriarch of one of the most prominent legal dynasties in South Carolina, was handed two consecutive life sentences for the June 2021 killings of his wife, Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22.
Maggie and Paul's shocking murders at the family’s Islandton hunting lodge garnered national attention. Alex Murdaugh denied any involvement in the shooting deaths of his wife and youngest son, though his alibi began to crumble as investigators realized that he was being dishonest about his whereabouts at the time of the murders.
Murdaugh took to the stand during the trial and admitted he repeatedly lied to officers about his activities on the night of the murders, swindled legal clients out of millions of dollars, and asked someone to shoot him in the head as part of an elaborate scheme to allow his surviving son to collect life insurance off of his death. His lawyers said after the conviction that they plan to appeal.
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