Maggie Haberman Confronts Trump After Stormy Daniels Hush Money Hearing: ‘Can You Get Acquittal?’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman confronted former President Donald Trump after a hearing in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, asking if he thinks he can “get an acquittal” in the case.

Reporters lined up Monday waiting for Trump to appear in court before Judge Juan Merchan 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 the former president.

The result of that hearing was a denial of Trump’s attempts to delay the trial, but during the hearing the former president also got some good news: the appeals court ruled he could have an additional ten days to post a reduced amount of $175 million in order to proceed with his appeal of the $460 million-plus fraud judgment hanging over his head.

Haberman was on hand for the hearing and for a press conference afterward.

Haberman was the first reporter to pose a question to Trump after the hearing, and asked him if he will be acquitted in Judge Merchan’s courtroom — prompting a lengthy falsehood-riddled digression from Trump about the fraud case:

MAGGIE HABERMAN: Sir, do you think you can get a — can you get an acquittal in this trial? In the Merchan trial?

DONALD TRUMP: I shouldn’t have a trial. This is not a trial. This is not an act of criminality.

MAGGIE HABERMAN: But you are having one, so do you see —

DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know if we’re having one. We’re going to be appealing right now. I can tell you that.

We did nothing wrong. Just like I did nothing wrong in the other case.

My statements, my financial statements were conservative. They were low, not high. I mean, he valued Mar-A-Lago at a tiny fraction of what it is. He’s the fraud. He created a fraud in order to help his narrative and her narrative. Because he does whatever she wants. And the judges, really? What he’s done is fraudulent. He made Mar-A-Lago —

You know it very well, Maggie. He made Mar-A-Lago into $18 million. I had many offers. They said, I’ll give you 19. Okay? You could take the half of the living room is worth more than that. So it’s worth anywhere from 50 to 100 times that amount. And he stays with it.

So he’s either whacked out or dishonest, one or the other, or both.

Haberman is well-versed in Trump’s legal cases, and in the details of the $18 million valuation — which was signed off on by Trump’s own real estate agent, and not determined by Judge Arthur Engoron.

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