Andy McCarthy Warns That Trump’s Lawyers Are Blowing His Defense With ‘Laughable’ Strategy: ‘That’s How You Get Trump Convicted’

Fox News contributor and conservative legal commentator Andy McCarthy is warning that former President Donald Trump’s defense strategy could lead to him getting convicted in his hush money trial.

In a column for National Review, McCarthy submitted that Trump’s lawyers are “playing right into” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hands.

McCarthy’s basic argument is that by villainizing his ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to the extent they have, Trump’s team is all but conceding that criminal activity did occur. He wrote:

Rather than just saying that none of this was illegal, Trump lawyers have taken the tack of blaming everything on Cohen. They stress that Cohen never, in so many words, told [David] Pecker that Trump said to make a nondisclosure deal with McDougal — in fact, they’re saying Trump did not believe in NDAs because he figured the story always comes out anyway, so why pay? With [Keith] Davidson, Trump’s lawyers will stress that all of his dealings were with Cohen, that Cohen avoided mentioning Trump’s name (i.e., Davidson was assuming Trump’s involvement but did not know for certain), and that Trump (or “Dennis Dennison”) never signed the NDA — for which Davidson and Stormy [Daniels] were paid by Cohen, not Trump.

That is, Trump’s lawyers, by their response, which has been forced by Judge Merchan’s rulings, are powerfully signaling to the jury that the NDAs — far from being legal — must be very bad. Hence, they must distance Trump from them.

“This is not going to work. In fact, it’s laughable,” he added before concluding that such a strategy is. “how you get Trump convicted.”

McCarthy later laid out the same argument in an appearance on Fox News.

“Their defense doesn’t make any sense to me, because if you want to, if you want to make a big deal with the fact that Michael Cohen was driving this train, that sounds like what he was doing was really bad. And that’s not consistent with saying nondisclosure agreements are completely legal,” said McCarthy. “I think I’d be sitting I’d be sitting there doing the crossword puzzle, not acting like I was being hurt by the testimony of this lawyer for Stormy Daniels. If it’s legal, then why paint Cohen as if he was doing something terrible?”

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