Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asked how former President Donald Trump feels about fighting the Stormy Daniels case “right in the middle of the election” in an interview with Trump lawyer Alina Habba.
Trump showed up to court last month for a hearing in the case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought involving hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, which resulted in a several-dozen-count indictment of Trump. The result of the hearing was that Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges and set a March 25 trial date.
On Wednesday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, MacCallum asked what Habba called “a couple of good questions” about the case, including how Trump feels about waging a defense during an election:
MACCALLUM: I want to get your thoughts, even though you’re not directly involved in this, you’re part of the larger legal team representing the former president.But the first case that is said to go to trial is in New York City here on March 25 under Judge Merchan. And it deals with the hush money that was paid to Stormy Daniels. That’s what that — the charges in this case and that it was diverted in the way that it was paid through legal fees.Do you think that case is going to get under way on March 25? And how does the
former president feel about this one that is likely to happen before — right in the middle of the election season?HABBA: Yes, that’s a couple of good questions there.Number one, do I think it’s going to go ahead? Well, really, it shouldn’t. We have an immunity defense that’s currently up on the Supreme Court. It’s going to be made a decision. And it should be stayed until all of those decisions are made, number one. And we will see what happens there.Number two, let’s remember what this is, Martha. Stormy Daniels is probably one of the oldest, legendary “Let’s get Trump” cases that we saw come out. Her attorney, I believe, is in prison or was, probably disbarred. Michael Cohen yet again reared his ugly head in that.And here we go years and years later. They decide, oh, guess what, he’s the GOP nominee. Let’s bring up this case again. We have Mark Pomerantz, who was in this case, involved, wrote a book about how they didn’t bring the case against President Trump, and it infuriated him and drove him to the point of quitting.This is all about politics. How does the president feel? I think exactly that way. This is political. There’s no place for this in America. DAs and A.G.’s should not be visiting the WhiteHouse and the administration before bringing complaints against the leading front-running candidate for the Republican Party, because Joe Biden can’t walk and can’t spell Bob backwards.That’s not our problem. That’s their problem. But it’s very clear what the motivation is. And I think the president’s frustrated for the nation and ready to get back to work in November.
Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum.