Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly said there is “no doubt” former President Donald Trump will be convicted in the hush money case involving adult film star Stormy Daniels.
The former president is facing charges in New York City from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office over allegations he illegally falsified business records to conceal alleged hush money payments to Daniels.
Trump denied the affair, pleading not guilty to the charges against him.
“Oh, he’s getting convicted. I don’t really think there’s a lot of mystery about that,” Kelly said Tuesday during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live.”
“He shouldn’t, but he’s going to get convicted. The jury’s going to hate him.”
“Manhattan went 92 percent, between 87 and 92 percent for Joe Biden,” she told host Dan Abrams.
“That’s where this is going to be tried. These are not Trump lovers.”
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Earlier this week, an appeals court rejected Trump’s bid to pause the proceedings, as his legal team argued that the case should be tried outside of New York.
Kelly said a jury would believe Trump paid off Daniels “to make her go away.”
“So I grant you, yeah, they’re probably going to convict him,” she said.
“They’re going to convict him pretty easily, I think,” she said Tuesday.
A ruling on Trump’s request to stay Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order is still pending.
CNBC reported:
A state appeals court judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to halt his criminal trial while he appeals his gag order in the case, a ruling that came less than 24 hours after another judge rejected the former president’s request to delay his impending criminal trial on other grounds.
Tuesday’s ruling came roughly one hour after Trump attorney Emil Bove argued his client is entitled to a stay of the proceedings while he challenges the “unconstitutional” partial gag order Judge Juan Merchan handed down against Trump last month and expanded days later.
Bove contended the gag order — which prohibits Trump from bashing witnesses, individual prosecutors, court staff and their relatives, the judge’s relatives and jurors and potential jurors — means his client can’t comment on publicly filed motions and that it violates the former president’s Sixth and First Amendment rights.
His court filing contended the order is causing “ongoing, irreparable harm to Petitioner and the voting public.”
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