Megyn Kelly says she has no doubt a Manhattan jury will convict Donald Trump in his “hush money” trial over alleged payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“Oh, he’s been convicted. I don’t think there’s much mystery about that,” Kelly told NewsNation host Dan Abrams on Tuesday.
“He shouldn’t have, but he will be convicted,” the former FOX and NBC anchor added. mediaite.
“Jurors are going to hate him. Manhattan was 92%, Joe Biden was between 87% and 92%. So here’s the test. They’re not Trump enthusiasts.”
Abrams then asked, “You don’t actually believe that Mr. Trump didn’t have an affair with Stormy Daniels, as he claims, do you?”
“No, I think there was an interlude. I don’t know, ‘affair’ might be too strong,” replied Kelly, who hosts a podcast on SiriusXM.
In the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president, Trump agreed to a deal with Daniels in exchange for her silence about what she said they had sexual contact with 10 years ago before the 2016 presidential election. The lawsuit alleges that attorney Michael Cohen concealed $130,000 he paid Daniels.
President Trump has denied having any such contact with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, and has sought to postpone the April 15 trial to give him a chance to challenge the gag order in the case. .
But on Tuesday, Chief Justice Cynthia Kahn quickly denied President Trump’s second, last-minute request for a delay, although the full appellate panel will now consider the Republican presidential candidate’s underlying objections to the gag order. It turns out.
Separately this week, it was revealed that prospective jurors in the Manhattan trial will not be asked directly about their political leanings, but will be asked if they are members of QAnon, the Proud Boys or Antifa.
Potential jurors are expected to say out loud whether they belong to extremist groups. This is one of 42 questions in jury selection scheduled to begin Monday.
According to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchan’s order late Monday, potential jurors must be asked at the time of their swearing-in whether they have attended any Trump campaign events or rallies and whether they have spoken to Trump or any “anti-Trump groups” on social media. You will be asked to state whether you are following them. .
“Look, a jury is going to believe that he paid a porn star to make her disappear before the election, and that he didn’t put ‘hush money on Stormy Daniels’ in his book. Hush money.” “The history of fee payments has never been written in any book,” Kelly said on NewsNation’s Corner. “That defeats the very purpose of hush money payments.”
She concluded: “So, yeah, they’ll probably convict him. I think they’ll convict him pretty easily.”
Trump’s lawyers said in a survey of Manhattan residents that 61% of respondents believed the 45th president was guilty and 70% had an unfavorable opinion of him. Ta.
Mr. Trump is charged with 34 felonies for falsifying business records to conceal payments allegedly made by Mr. Daniels.
The incident is one of four criminal charges President Trump faces as he prepares to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in November. He is seeking to delay proceedings in all cases until after the election, with only the hush money case set to have a trial date.
Other lawsuits stem from his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to Biden and his handling of classified government documents after leaving the White House in 2021. , Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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