Alvin Bragg’s latest witness provided damning information linking Donald Trump to a potential felony in the former president’s hush money cover-up case, but a Fox News legal and political analyst doesn’t see it that way.
Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett, who previously said it’s a “myth that collusion in a political campaign is a crime,” wrote a piece for the conservative outlet in which he insists that “Bragg’s own witness, Hope Hicks, implodes case against Trump.”
“Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg should turn himself in to authorities for impersonating an honest lawyer,” Jarrett wrote.
Jarrett goes on to claim that bringing Hicks to testify was an “epic miscalculation that backfired spectacularly.”
“The moment cross-examination began, their misbegotten case against the former president began to collapse,” he claimed. “Hicks, who served as press secretary during the 2016 presidential campaign, explained that Trump’s motive for suppressing salacious stories was to protect his wife, Melania. ‘Absolutely…I don’t think he wanted anyone in his family to be hurt or embarrassed about anything on the campaign. He wanted them to be proud of him.'”
MSNBC legal analyst and host Katie Phang simply responded, “Nope.”
Civil rights lawyer Andrew C Laufer also chimed in.
“That’s just not correct. She actually made it stronger,” he noted.
@barrowc730 said, “This is hilarious how Fox is trying to spin this.”
“Trump had a horrible day in court yesterday and Hicks further confirmed the state’s case against Trump. This should be illegal for a news organization to do but it’s been ruled in court that Fox isn’t a serious news organization,” the user added.
“The best way to read this Opposite Land take on the Hope Hicks testimony is to imagine Gregg Jarrett madly bailing water from a sinking row boat,” said Joe Hagan,a special correspondent for Vanity Fair.
Conservative attorney George Conway had this to say about Jarrett’s stated opinion.
“The extent to which [Fox News] misinforms its viewers day in and day out, continues to astound. This take is insane,” the lawyer wrote Saturday.
