CNN host and Dr. Phil debate over Trump’s lawsuit
CNN hosts Abby Phillip and Dr. Phil McGraw debated whether Trump received due process in his criminal trial, where he was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Dr. Phil McGraw CNN host Abby Phillip debated on CNN late Thursday night over whether former President Trump received a fair trial in a New York City courtroom last week.
“I’m sympathetic to what happened to Trump in this particular trial, because I think it wasn’t due process for him. I would say the same thing if Biden or anybody else was in the process,” McGraw told Philip during the contentious hearing. Media presence.
McGraw appeared on the network to discuss her interview with the former president earlier that day. However, the conversation quickly turned to a debate over whether Trump received due process in his court case, where he was convicted. Found guilty of 34 serious crimes Accused of mishandling business records.
Phillippe pressed McGraw to explain why she felt Trump was not given due process and commented on two points that she “didn’t understand” her reasoning.
Dr. Phil appeared on CNN on Thursday to talk about Trump’s lawsuit and his exclusive interview with the former president. (Screenshot/CNN)
McGraw argued he had a problem with what the jury heard from the prosecution’s key witness, Michael Cohen.
Cohen’s credibility was repeatedly questioned by legal analysts in the media during the trial. CNN’s own senior legal analyst Eli Honig argued Although Cohen’s testimony was crucial to the case, there were “serious questions about his credibility”.
Because of Cohen’s testimony, McGraw argued, the jury “heard some things that were very prejudicial, that had nothing to do with solving the problem of the case.”
He explained, “I think you shouldn’t have someone who is considered an accomplice to a crime, who has pleaded guilty or entered into a non-prosecution agreement, and allow that information to come to the attention of the jury, because it’s very prejudicial and doesn’t really substantiate anything that they’re being asked to address.”
However, Phillips argued that it is “not at all uncommon” in mob cases, for example, for prosecutors to use witnesses who have struck plea deals, like Cohen, to testify against their alleged co-conspirators in later trials.
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Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen returned to testify in the NY vs. Trump trial on Tuesday. (Getty Images)
“That’s the way most prosecutions work,” he said.
“I don’t understand how you can say that because somebody … signed a non-prosecution plea that their testimony cannot be presented to the jury if they were part of the alleged scheme,” he said.
McGraw and Phillips continued to argue about Cohen’s testimony, and McGraw asked Phillips for other examples of where this had been done.
He said he was not arguing that Cohen should not have been allowed to testify, while Philippe questioned his claims.
“No, I’m not saying that. I said what I said,” he responded. “I think the fact that he entered into an agreement to say he was guilty of the crime that the accused is on trial for prejudices the jury that ‘Hey, here’s somebody who is allegedly his accomplice who said, I’m guilty of this,'” McGraw said. “It prejudices the jury about the person who is currently facing trial for the same crime.”
Phillip pointed out that Cohen, like Trump, was not prosecuted for falsifying business records, then brought the conversation back to the original topic.
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Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower on Thursday, May 30, 2024, after being found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
McGraw previously criticized the “weaponization” of the justice system on his show after Trump was convicted.
“This weaponization of our great institutions — the FBI, the Justice Department and similar institutions in individual states — will lead to one of two outcomes: One will be a retaliatory strike on the other side — tit for tat. It may seem fair, but it is not the right way for America to move forward,” he said.
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During a CNN program on Thursday, McGraw said he had given a similar warning to Trump. The desire for “revenge” On those who had done injustice to him.
He said, “Look, this is not going to help this country. If you come to power and your agenda is of revenge, of retribution and say, ‘Okay, you are after me, so now I will go after you’, then America will bear the cost of this. This is not right to do.”
