Trump Cites Five Fox News Legal Pundits to Insist His Conviction Was Bogus: ‘They Said There’s No Case’
Former President Donald Trump cited five Fox News pundits and frequent network guest Alan Dershowitz to claim he did not commit the crimes he was convicted of committing.
On Thursday, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments intended to prevent his extramarital affairs from becoming a campaign issue in 2016.
Republicans have baselessly insisted that President Joe Biden was behind the prosecution. Trump is also under indictment in three other jurisdictions.
The former president sat for an interview on Wednesday with Fox News host Sean Hannity and discussed the New York case.
“They are doing it for the purposes of hurting a political opponent of Biden and trying to get him to win,” Trump said. “Everybody said this is such a minor thing, you don’t go to jail for this.”
He went on to say the system is “corrupt,” declaring, “Nobody’s ever seen anything like this.”
Trump then reiterated his claim that he “did nothing wrong” and name-checked Fox News pundits Gregg Jarrett, Andy McCarthy, Jonathan Turley, Mark Levin and Jeanine Pirro:
TRUMP: I did nothing wrong in any of these things. I did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong at all. And when you look at the analysts, whether it’s Gregg Jarrett or Andy McCarthy or Jonathan Turley or your friend, the great one Mark Levin. Dershowitz. All of them.
HANNITY: Judge Jeanine.
TRUMP: Judge Jeanine was so incredible two weeks ago. She was unbelievable. Angry. She was angry. And you know why they’re angry? Because they love our country and they see what’s happening. It’s totally unconstitutional what they’ve done. And if you look at the statements made by the people I mentioned, I’m not friends with any of them. I think they respect what I’ve done. They might respect me, they might not respect me. But they said there’s no case. It shouldn’t have been brought.
Dershowitz is a frequent Fox News guest, but is not on the network’s payroll. The former Harvard Law professor is a longtime Democrat who nonetheless defends Trump regularly, which has reportedly earned him pariah status on Martha’s Vineyard.
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