Fox News’ Shannon Bream came under fire from Donald Trump fans and even the former president himself for being “anti-MAGA” in an interview with attorney Alina Habba.
Habba, one of Trump’s fiercest legal defenders, told the Fox News host on Wednesday that Trump’s hush money trial was a product of Joe Biden, saying: “This is exactly a Biden show because he has to distract the American people.”
Bream noted that this was a trial conducted in New York by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and concluded: ‘the Biden administration is not responsible for this trial.’
Habba responded by stating that several New York state prosecutors have their names in White House visitor logs.
“What I’m saying is that the feds overlooked these cases,” Bream replied.
Fox News’ Shannon Bream came under fire from Donald Trump fans and even the former president himself for being ‘anti-MAGA’ in an interview with attorney Alina Habba.
Habba, one of Trump’s fiercest legal defenders, told the Fox News host on Monday that Trump’s hush money trial was a product of Joe Biden, saying, “This is exactly a Biden show because he has to distract the American people.”
Habba continued to stand his ground, believing that Democrats from Bragg to Robert De Niro, who appeared at trial this week, were exploiting him for political gain.
Former President Trump sharply criticized Bream in a post on Truth Social on Monday night, before the verdict.
He wrote: “I never thought Shannon Bream was so ‘naive’.” In her interview with my representative, Alina Habba, Shannon just suggested that corrupt Joe Biden was not involved in my trial. HOW STUPID! Not only is he involved, but he practically directs it, and so does all the other Trials, that is, his people, because he is not mentally sharp enough to lead anything!’
‘Just look at the Justice Department and White House thugs involved, and everything else. Biden is incompetent and feels militarization is the only way to win. “He’s counting on the Shannon Breams of the World to get him there,” Trump added.
He concluded: ‘Bad day for Shannon!’
Other Trump fans on X were furious with Bream, with Juanita Broderick writing: ‘What the hell happened to Shannon Bream?’ Or has she always been the anti-Trump one?
Another added: “Shannon Bream made the mistake of trying to tell Alina Habba that Joe wasn’t involved in this case, and it didn’t go well.”
The former president was found guilty of all 34 serious crimes after a very brief deliberation. He will be sentenced on July 11.
Former President Trump criticized Bream in a post on Truth Social on Monday night, before the verdict.
Prosecutors had to reach a high bar to convince a 12-person New York jury that Trump conspired to help his 2016 election campaign by paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about their alleged sexual encounters. .
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg assembled all the evidence and witness testimony that they claimed was enough to charge Trump with 34 felony counts of “falsifying business records.”
Trump’s team attempted to lay out a strong defense of the former president, distancing him from Cohen’s payments to Stormy Daniels.
They also reiterated several of their strongest points, that hush money payments are not illegal and that Trump only wanted to avoid his family’s humiliation over Stormy’s alleged affair claims.
This is the first time that a former president of the United States faces a criminal trial.
Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and will face Joe Biden in the November election.
It means the verdict could upend the race for the White House in 2024 and constitute a pivotal moment in American history.
Each of the charges Trump faces carries a potential maximum sentence of up to four years in prison.
Other Trump fans on X were furious with Bream
Prosecutors spoke of a plot by Trump to “corrupt” the 2016 election by hiding a $130,000 payment from his “fixer” Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels alleged that she and Trump had sex a decade earlier, which he has denied.
The case featured explosive evidence from Daniels and exposed the “catch-and-kill” practices of the National Enquirer tabloid, which bought stories that could be damaging to Trump and suppressed them.
But the actual criminal charges concern something more prosaic: the refunds Trump signed for Cohen for the payment.
The refunds, paid by Trump in monthly installments, were recorded as legal expenses.
Prosecutors say it was a fraudulent label designed to conceal the purpose of the hush money transaction and unlawfully interfere in the 2016 election.
Defense attorneys argued that Cohen actually performed substantial legal work for Trump and his family and was paid for it.
In a marathon day of closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys had one last chance to score points with jurors as they embarked on their momentous task.
Stormy Daniels, key witness in the trial, with Donald Trump in 2006
Defense called key witness Michael Cohen the ‘GLOAT’ (greatest liar of all time)
The two sides offered wildly different accounts of Trump’s guilt, the strength of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses.
Prosecutors accused Trump of trying to “deceive” voters in the 2016 election by suppressing embarrassing stories that could torpedo his campaign.
“The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead inescapably to the man who benefited the most: the defendant, former President Donald Trump,” prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury.
He said Daniels’ story was “confusing” and “will probably make some of you uncomfortable hearing it, but that’s the point.”
“In simpler terms, Stormy Daniels is the reason.”
But Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, said Daniels couldn’t be trusted.
And he called the prosecution’s star witness, Cohen, the “biggest liar of all time,” giving him the acronym “the GLOAT.”
Blanche said: ‘President Trump is innocent. He committed no crime and the district attorney has not met his burden of proof, period.
Margo Martin, Donald Trump’s deputy communications director, is seen leaving Trump Tower to go to court at the beginning of the case.
Donald Trump Jr., Tiffany Trump, Eric Trump and Lara Trump attend the trial of former US President Donald Trump at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 28.
Trump did not take the stand to present evidence in his own defense.
Towards the end of the trial, Trump angrily posted on social media that he was the victim of a ‘Kangaroo Court’. and added: ‘In God we trust!’
Jurors heard how the payment to Daniels unfolded in 2016 in the context of the release of a 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ recording in which Trump could be heard bragging about sexually grabbing women without their permission.
If Daniels’ story had emerged after the ‘Access Hollywood’ scandal, it would have further damaged her campaign, the court heard.
Steinglass told the jury: “It’s not about whether you like Michael Cohen.” It’s not about whether you want to do business with Michael Cohen.
“It’s about whether you have useful, reliable information to give you about what happened in this case, and the truth is you were in the best position to know that.”