Chris Cuomo compared OJ Simpson to Donald Trump on his podcast, stating that both cases exemplified the “cultural conflict between law and justice.”
In an episode of The Chris Cuomo Project released Tuesday, the former CNN anchor spoke about the 30th anniversary of Simpson’s murder trial and his recent death.
Cuomo compared Simpson’s infamous murder trial to Trump’s successful hush money trial that began Monday.
He said: “We are on the verge of Donald Trump being the next example of the cultural conflict between law and politics of equity and justice.”
The NewsNation anchor, 53, began by stating that he believes both men were guilty of the crimes charged.
Chris Cuomo compared OJ Simpson to Donald Trump on his podcast and said both cases exemplified the “cultural conflict between law and justice.”
Trump’s long-awaited hush money trial began earlier this week
Cuomo said OJ’s murder trial was an “obvious case” and that he was guilty of stabbing his wife and her friend to death in 1994.
Cuomo said: ‘OJ was an obvious case. Most of the time, murder involves someone close to the victim. This is also an obvious case… Trump did it.”
He continued: ‘You don’t always need to have a trial to know. Maybe you need to know beyond a reasonable doubt. I don’t need that here.’
Cuomo said Trump’s Stormy Daniels case is about what he represents culturally, rather than the legal proceedings.
“The Donald Trump case has more to do with what it means to process this symbol in the form of a man than the case itself,” he said.
Cuomo went on to describe how both Simpson and Trump represent “fiscal discretion.”
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the gruesome murders of Brown, his ex-wife, and Ron Goldman, his friend.
“The OJ case was more about racial injustice than it was about justice under the law,” Cuomo said.
However, Cuomo said Simpson didn’t necessarily get his way because he was black, but because “black people were tired of a process rife with injustice that unfairly punished them.”
It has been widely claimed that Simpson’s “dream team” of defense attorneys played the race card at his trial, ultimately leading to the not guilty verdict.
Veteran civil rights advocate Johnnie Cochran, who took on the case, employed the tactic of asking the jury not whether his client was a cold-blooded killer, but whether the Los Angeles Police Department framed him as part of a racist plot.
This tactic worked especially well because Simpson’s trial came after the 1992 acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, which sparked fierce riots throughout the city.
Cuomo said both Simpson’s acquittal and Trump’s trial represent “broader issues of fairness, privilege and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”
He talked about how the dynamics of both the Simpson case and the Trump trial are skewed and involve groupthink.
“We’re not talking about laws and facts and the process there too with a jury, we’re talking about perception, politics and reaction.”
Cuomo said he believes Trump had disqualified himself from the presidential race “a hundred times” and was “embarrassed by the idea that the best thing America can produce” is Trump and Biden.
Trump’s long-awaited hush money trial began earlier this week.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records about a $160,000 payment to cover up an alleged affair with porn star Story Daniels before the 2016 election.
The first day of Trump’s Manhattan trial ended Monday with no one yet chosen to serve on the 12-person jury or as one of the six alternates.
In an episode of The Chris Cuomo Project released Tuesday, the former CNN anchor spoke about the 30th anniversary of Simpson’s trial and his recent death.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records about a $160,000 payment to cover up an alleged affair with porn star Story Daniels before the 2016 election.
The presumptive Republican nominee complained about a gag order that prevents him from publicly commenting on jurors, potential witnesses and others connected to his criminal cases.
Trump denied any wrongdoing, saying outside court: “I was paying a lawyer and I put it on a legal expense account.” Some accountant (I didn’t know) wrote it down as a legal expense. That’s exactly what it was. And they accuse you of that?
“He should be right now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states, North Carolina and Georgia, campaigning.”