Former FBI Director James Comey told NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” on Wednesday that he believes former President Donald Trump will be convicted in a business records trial in New York.
Host Dan Abrams asked, “If you were the district attorney of Manhattan — you’re a former top prosecutor in New York, not the district attorney of Manhattan, you held a different position — would you have filed a hush money lawsuit?”
“I wasn’t convinced when I read the indictment, but looking at this case and looking into it, I don’t understand why they didn’t file charges,” Comey said. They had a much stronger case than I imagined. They’re going to ignore it because of who the defendant is. That’s something you never want to do as a prosecutor.”
Abrams said: “What do you think will happen? I can’t imagine there’s going to be anything about a hung jury.”
Comey said, “Actually, I take a different view. I think the chances of a conviction are overwhelmingly high, the chances of a divided verdict are very low, but the chances of a acquittal are zero.” Stated.
He added: “They built a very strong circumstantial case. They built a brick wall that was virtually insurmountable because they had documents, they had writings, and then finally the words of the defendant before he went to the cooperator. I’m sure they debated whether they even needed to call Cohen a cooperator. And that circumstantial evidence, at least in my experience having tried a number of cases, is very powerful with a jury.”
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