After a jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 charges in a Manhattan criminal trial on Thursday, Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, lamented the outcome and the circumstances that appear to have led to it.
Blanche told FNC host Jesse Watters that she feels Trump’s constitutional rights were also violated.
“Do you believe that Donald Trump’s constitutional rights were violated?” Watters asked in an interview that aired Thursday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“In many ways, yes,” Blanche replied.
“Why?” Watters asked.
“For example, if you look at the gag order that was issued, every day President Trump was campaigning he was trying to compete with speech that he couldn’t refute without risking a fine or going to jail for violating it,” Blanche said. “This doesn’t just affect President Trump. It affects every voter, whether they vote for him or against him. It affects every voter in this country, because they can’t hear the candidate. We strongly oppose this order.”
He continued, “We appealed that as well. There’s been a lot of things that have happened over the last year that I’m sitting here tonight. The verdict was just handed down today. But really, a lot of things that have happened over the last year that I think the American people should really think about, the whole way this case has been prosecuted. The district attorney says these types of cases are common, that they handle these types of cases all the time. That’s not true. That’s just not true. This is a case where President Trump’s personal records, his personal checkbook records from 2017, are on trial.”
“It doesn’t happen all the time,” Blanche added. “It doesn’t happen all the time in Manhattan, and it doesn’t have to happen all the time in every jurisdiction in the country. And that’s fine. If you want to indict and pursue somebody for conduct that happened in 2017, that’s fine. But I think the problem for me as an attorney is not to look me in the eye and say this is an everyday occurrence, this is something we do all the time, we’re treating President Trump the same as anybody else. That’s not true. That’s not true.”
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