Stephen A. Smith Believes Democrats Want Trump Convicted in Hush Money Trial to Avoid Facing Him in Election: ‘This Is a Disaster’

Stephen A. Smith theorized that Democrats are pursuing Donald Trump’s hush money trial because they’re afraid of facing him on the ballot.

Trump is accused of falsifying business records to conceal payments he made before the election in 2016. The payments were allegedly made to cover up extramarital affairs.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is a disaster,” Smith said on The Stephen A. Smith Show. “Somebody needs to tell y’all, so I’m gonna tell y’all.”

Smith called the case “much ado about nothing” and challenged Democrats to focus on beating him in the polls and not the courtroom.

“To my liberal friends out there, all you’re doing is showing that you’re scared you can’t beat him on the issues and the merits,” Smith said. “That’s why he keeps saying, ‘It’s a political campaign against me.’ That’s why he keeps saying, ‘They can’t beat me at the election, at the polls. This is the only way they could do it.’

“And if you don’t put him in jail, and he still goes from being the presumptive GOP nominee to the official GOP nominee — and he goes to the polls even though he was gonna whine about winning and being rigged again — you have given more fodder to that argument, which means we’ll never have peace in this country because tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can’t beat him on their own merits.”

It’s important to note that, regardless of the outcome of any of Trump’s current cases, he’ll still be able to run for president.