'The judge is likely to agree': Ex-prosecutor blows up Trump's defense of attack on jurors
Donald Trump will likely blame his latest jury attacks on the fact that he was merely quoting someone else, but that's not going to hold up before the judge in the former president's criminal case alleging hush money and a transactional cover-up, a legal expert said Wednesday.
Trump earlier in the day posted a purported quote from a Fox News host, Jesse Watters, suggesting the jurors are lying to the judge in order to be placed on the case. Those comments had one former judge saying Trump was "dancing on the line" when it comes to his expanded gag order.
Legal analyst and former prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on CNN on Wednesday to give his take on the jury attack.
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For Mariotti, he says Trump is likely going to claim that he was merely quoting someone else. But he will have a difficult time making that argument, since the post wasn't shared directly, and was instead typed out, either by Trump or someone else in control of the ex-president's Truth Social account, Mariotti said.
"In other words, you are endorsing or approving the statement adopting the statement of Jesse Watters," he said. "I think that's how the D.A. is going to argue it tomorrow -- the D.A.'s team -- and I think the judge is likely to agree."