Former President Donald Trump is making the same mistake twice in his current Manhattan criminal trial, George Conway, the vocally anti-Trump lawyer and legal analyst, said this week.
On Wednesday, Conway appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and spoke about the criminal trial against Trump for his alleged hush money payments made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
During his appearance, Conway compared Trump’s current trial behavior to his other recent defamation case involving E. Jean Carroll saying “I actually don’t think he has a complete ability to control himself. I think we saw that during the E. Jean Carroll trial, I think we’re going to see it again.”
Conway said he believes its “important” for New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to give Trump “warnings,” on how he acts towards potential jurors and said, “But the fact is, to the extent he does that to the jury – in front of the jury, it shows disrespect for the jury and doesn’t necessarily help him and that’s one of the reasons why I think that he was hit with that $83.3 million verdict during the second E. Jean Carroll trial.”
This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.
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