On Sunday, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) stated that Trump’s New York hush money trial is nothing more than a Democratic effort to distract from the fact that the “world is on fire” under Biden’s leadership.
While appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Vance tore into the Biden Administration, saying, “This is about the fact that President Joe Biden has a failed record as commander in chief and leader of this country, and the Democrats can’t talk about that. So what they’re doing is putting these trials out there and saying, ‘Focus on this, not on the fact that the world is on fire and the fact that you’ve gotten poor under the presidency of Joe Biden.’”
Vance’s comments come as war continues raging in Ukraine and Israel, and anti-Israel protestors disrupt college campuses in various areas of the nation.
Trump’s case revolves around alleged falsification of business records. Prosecutors claim that Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to silence her claims of an alleged affair with Trump.
Prosecutors also claim that the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen and logged the payments as legal expenses. They are attempting to prove that Trump falsified records with the intent to commit or conceal a crime. Cohen is set to take the stand on Monday.
Last week, Daniels took the stand and made several claims relating to Trump. She alleged that she met the former president in 2006 at Lake Tahoe during a celebrity golf tournament, and that they had sex in Trump’s hotel room during the event, which Trump has repeatedly denied.
She also detailed how she got into pornography after working as an exotic dancer as a teenager.
Vance stated that Trump is not on trial for sexual crimes, despite Daniels’ testimony focusing on it. The comments are in line with those made by legal experts, who state that it was irrelevant to the case and should not have been admitted into the record, Fox News reported.
“Donald Trump is not on trial for sexual indiscretions. This is a sham trial, where they’re saying his misdeed is that he violated the law,” he told host Dana Bash. “That he committed a crime. You can’t throw somebody in prison in the middle of a presidential election because you think that he did something bad 10 years ago. So I think we have to separate these arguments from the actual criminal trial that’s attempting to – in my view, Dana – interfere in a presidential election.”
Trump’s team has repeatedly motioned for a mistrial, but has been denied by presiding Judge Juan Merchan, who has faced accusations of bias against the former president. Merchan’s daughter acted as a political consultant for multiple Democratic candidates.
“The only thing that Alvin Bragg, the New York prosecutors’ team, thinks Donald Trump did wrong is that he ran for president in 2024, and he looks to be on the cusp of victory,” he said. “That is the only thing that this is ultimately about. If you look at the underlying argument of the case, they can’t even identify what it is that Donald Trump did. They said he committed a paperwork violation in the service of a crime, but they won’t even specify the crime that he allegedly committed. And I think that when you look at all of these attacks on Donald Trump, you have to be honest with yourself and say, ‘This is not about law. And this is not about justice.’”
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