CNN analyst says Trump wouldn't be convicted in non-blue area, case relies on known liar Michael Cohen
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CNN legal analyst Elie Honig made the case that convicting former President Trump in the New York hush money trial is not the slam dunk many liberals believe it is.
"On the scale of cases that prosecutors charge, it's middling, it seems to me," Honig told Puck's Tara Palmeri. "If they were trying this case in a jurisdiction that would have gone 50-50 Trump-Biden, I would say there's no chance of a conviction. But you know, the healthy majority of criminal cases that go to trial do result in convictions." Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
Trump’s historic trial kicked off Monday, where he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The case revolves around an accusation that he improperly reimbursed Cohen for a $130,000 payoff in 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an alleged affair with Trump. Trump has denied the affair and called the criminal case – the first ever against a former U.S. president – an act of "political persecution."