Fox News’ Andy McCarthy Explains Where Trump’s Defense Has ‘Gone Wrong’

Fox News contributor and legal analyst Andy McCarthy explained how Donald Trump’s defense team has played into the prosecution’s hands in his hush money trial during a segment on America’s Newsroom Wednesday morning.

“Where Trump I think has gone wrong in the approach to this case is he continues, when he’s outside the courtroom, to say none of this is illegal, none of it was a crime. But his defense in the trial approach the things that are legal as if they were criminal and that he had to stay a million miles away from them,” submitted McCarthy. “So, for example, they say again and again, non-disclosure agreements, these NDAs that we keep talking about, are legal. Well, if they’re legal then don’t run away from them. Don’t treat them like they’re dynamite. Except what the defense approach here has been to say, ‘That was all Michael Cohen. That had nothing to do with Trump.’

He continued:

Reimbursing Cohen was legal! Yet Todd Blanche, Trump’s lawyer at the start of the trial, looked the jury in the eye and say that said “Trump didn’t reimburse Cohen” under circumstances where like, there’s a ton of evidence, including Trump’s own tweets and a financial disclosure form that he did when he was president that shows he paid him. So I think the problem here for him — aside from the fact that, you know, the fix is in, I think as far as the D.A. is concerned and the judge is concerned — but Trump has played into their hands by treating the strengths of the defense as if they were weaknesses. And he’s gone a long way toward helping them. I know that that wasn’t the intention, but it’s one of these cases where the political dynamic, the political message that he wants to carry to voters for 2024 does not sync up with the defense that he should have been pursuing in the four corners of the trial.

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