Fox News Guest Gushes About Trump Turning Trial ‘Into Political Gold’: He’s ‘Performed a Judo Move’
Former George W. Bush administration attorney John Yoo, best known for penning the so-called “torture memos,” praised former President Donald Trump on Thursday for turning his unprecedented trial into “political gold.”
Fox News’s Neil Cavuto covered Trump’s post-trial presser, in which the former president repeated many of his regular talking points.
Cavuto summed it up, saying, “All right, obviously, the former president not a fan of this ongoing trial now into its 10th day. So tomorrow will be day number 11.”
Cavuto then brought in his panel. “John Yoo to you. And obviously, the frustration the president is expressing again and again as he has, about how limited he is to say and speak his mind, something that Michael Cohen is not. And this gag order and the thousand dollar fine each time he, you know, he says something out of turn and prosecutors want him punished to believe it’s up to $9,000. Prosecutors say four or five more examples. That’s another four or $5,000. Where’s all that going?” asked the Fox host.
“You know, I agree with President Trump that he’s under an unprecedented, unfair gag order when you take into account the campaign,” Yoo replied, adding:
But as we’ve talked about before, maybe I’m being contrarian here. Even though he’s suffering these legal setbacks, he’s turning it into political gold. As you mentioned, he’s six points ahead of Biden amongst registered voters nationwide. It’s incredible how he sort of performed a judo move on Biden and these prosecutors by turning these attacks into favorable political ratings.
I think maybe part of his what we just saw, Biden has trouble giving a press conference and stringing cogent sentences together. I tell you, Neal, you sit in a courtroom for ten days in a row where you can’t say anything, and all you have to do is listen to people attack you. And then at the end of that day, you get up and give a pretty good press conference. They’re pretty good cogent statements not typed, you know, no transcript written out for you not practiced. And so you look at that contrast between him and Biden and he comes out looking better.
Despite becoming the first former president to ever stand trial on criminal charges and running while under dozens of indictments, Trump is indeed leading Biden in all the swing states and remains effectively tied in national polling.
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