Anti-Trump lawyer George Conway says the 12 jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are unlikely to vote to acquit him.
The case, one of four criminal charges Trump faces, centers on the claim that he tried to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to maintain her silence.
The seven men and five women on the jury include a corporate lawyer, an investment banker, a software engineer and a professor.
Conway, who is now divorcing Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, appeared to address the jury in the case, which is nearing a conclusion this week, where he says Trump is unlikely to be unanimously acquitted.
‘The defense has a lot of work ahead of it. But all the defense has to do is convince a juror to hang the group. I don’t think they can get an acquittal. “I don’t think they’re going to get 12 unanimous votes to acquit him,” he said.
Anti-Trump lawyer George Conway says all 12 jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are unlikely to vote to acquit him
The case, one of four criminal charges Trump faces, centers on the claim that he tried to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to maintain her silence.
He told MSNBC’s Katie Phang that the defense’s best hope is that there will be someone who refuses to convict him.
Conway believes that is unlikely due to former President Trump’s signature on the various checkpoints, as well as attempts to conceal evidence.
“I’m not sure how a good outcome, other than a sort of tie in a mistrial with a hung jury – 11 to 1, or 10 to 2 – I don’t see a good outcome for Donald Trump from this.”
Conway attempted to explain what he thought the jury would have seen during the course of the successful trial.
“Every testimony we’ve heard has Trump up to his neck in all of this,” Conway said.
And it’s going to be hard for the jury not to conclude that he didn’t cause all of this. And it’s going to be difficult for the jury not to conclude that the purpose was to help the election campaign, in which case, it was a campaign finance violation.’
The case has been described as a political witch hunt by the former president, designed to keep him out of the election campaign.
He is also the only one likely to have gone to trial before the November general election.
Conway, who is now divorcing Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, appeared to talk about the jury in the case, which is nearing its conclusion this week, where he says Trump is unlikely to be unanimously acquitted.
The case involving Daniels (pictured) has been called a political witch hunt by the former president, designed to keep him off the campaign trail.
Judge Merchan, who has repeatedly clashed with Trump’s defense team and issued a series of gag orders against the former president, will deliver his instructions to the jury once both sides have concluded their summation.
Habba said the instructions serve as a “road map” for the jury and are the most critical part of the trial.
“Judge Merchan is very conflicted,” he said.
“At this point I have no confidence that this person, who should not be sitting on the stand right now, will properly instruct the jury without any persuasion to the prosecution.
“The last resort for this prosecution is this judge.”
The former president received a warm welcome when he became the first Republican presidential candidate in 40 years to hold a rally in the Bronx on Thursday.
And the Sunday Morning Futures presenter told his guest he was more optimistic about the jury than she was.
“I want to tell you something, there is a positive side to this, Alina,” Duffy said.
Trump has claimed that Judge Juan M. Merchán “can’t stand me” and called the trial a political witch hunt designed to keep him off the campaign trail.
‘I don’t want a jury to come in on the Thursday or Friday before Memorial Day weekend, you know what? I have a party going on. I want to finish this case early.
“I think it could bode well for President Trump, for those people on the jury who understand the law and the facts, to fight for him and fight for justice.”
Alina Habba, who represented Trump in his civil fraud case, sharply criticized Judge Juan Merchán for not sequestering jurors at a hotel during what could be the final weekend of the six-week trial.
“I have serious concerns about the fact that you may be out and about on a holiday weekend with friends and family who have opinions, who are watching the news and TV in the background at the pool party,” he told Sean. Duffy on Fox. News.
‘If you’re on the left and you’re watching MSDNC, as my client calls it, or CNN, you’re not going to get fair news.
“I’m worried that they’ll go back to whatever friends they may have, Trump Derangement Syndrome, that they’ll forget all sense of reality and they’ll go back and sit in that box and say, you know what? I have to do, you know, take one . for the Democratic National Committee.
‘I want the law to be a fact, because if we can get it, we will win. We won’t just get a hung jury. We will get absolution.’
The twelve jurors were sworn in on April 22 after three days of wrangling between prosecution and defense attorneys.
