There’s been plenty of analysis from Trump-friendly news sources regarding how weak the Manhattan “hush money” case against the former president truly is.
But speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Donald Trump cited reports from some of his fiercest media critics to make the case that there’s no “smoking gun” being presented in court.
Our President is a brilliant man:
Trump expertly avoids violating Judge Merchan's unconstitutional gag order by using the left's own words against them. He pulls out a piece of paper and reads quotes from CNN and other news outlets on what THEY are saying about the case.
BRILLIANT!
👉 @DailyNoahNews pic.twitter.com/piBc00Mqkg
— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) May 7, 2024
As Fox News reported:
“NBC ‘Today’ show: ‘The challenge is that there is no smoking gun, no email or tape to prove the president’s intent. They don’t have a way to prove that.’ That’s NBC ‘Today’ show,” Trump said Tuesday morning.
Trump rattled off a series of media reports and expert commentary, including from “fake news CNN,” “Good Morning America” and Fox News, arguing the prosecution team is failing to prove Trump is guilty of falsifying business records with an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.
“On ‘Good Morning America,’ they said, ‘We heard that expense payments to lawyers are legal expenses.’ You pay a lawyer expenses payments. We didn’t put it down as construction costs, the purchase of sheet rock, the electrical cost. The legal expense that we paid was put down as legal expense. There’s nothing else you could say. You don’t have to put down anything, I guess. But we put down legal expense.”
Trump has previously cited various scholars and legal experts who have dismissed the fundamental claims being made against him in court.
President Trump:
Virtually every great legal scholar says the Crooked New York City D.A., Alvin Bragg, who is allowing violent crime to run rampant on the sidewalks of New York, has absolutely NO CASE AGAINST ME. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!! pic.twitter.com/xkqNzWjX9z
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) May 5, 2024
Hans von Spakovsky: “TRUMP’S NY PROSECUTION IS A BOGUS CASE BY A BOGUS PROSECUTOR…Neither the FEC nor the Justice Department ever filed an enforcement action against the Trump campaign or Trump personally over the payment; specifically, because it was not a campaign-related…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 6, 2024
He’s also shared various bits of evidence that fly in the face of the prosecution’s paper-thin case.
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 7, 2024
Here’s how Trump’s news conference outside the courthouse on Tuesday continued, per Yahoo:
Trump said Tuesday that “with all this going on, they have no case.”
“Every single legal scholar that I see, I mean, maybe there’s somebody out there, some whack job. But for virtually… everyone that I’ve seen, has said there’s absolutely no case. It’s a case that shouldn’t have been brought. The previous D.A. wouldn’t bring it. Bragg didn’t want to bring it. And then he brought it because I’m running and in number one place,” Trump continued Tuesday.
Amid the trial, Trump has been placed under a gag order that prevents him from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses and their potential participation or remarks about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff. Trump has railed against the order as “unconstitutional” and trampling on his free speech rights.
On Monday, presiding Judge Juan Merchan said he would consider a jail sentence for Trump if he continues to violate the gag order.
Watch the video of Trump using reporters’ own words against them in this powerful video clip:
Trump Quotes Members of the Media Who Question Validity of ‘Hush Money’ Case Against Him
The former president said, in reference to his legal expenses, that “there was nothing being hidden at all.” “They have no case,” he said. pic.twitter.com/Lva0Sj0Sdt
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) May 7, 2024
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