Dr. Phil McGraw is upset because he says convicted felon Donald Trump was unfairly prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the fact that he paid hush money to a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair.
McGraw interviewed the disgraced former president and later appeared on CNN to discuss his conversation with Trump.
“I’m sympathetic to what Trump has gone through in this particular trial because I think it was not proper due process for him,” McGraw said. “I would say the same thing a bit was [President Joe] Biden or anyone else in that process.”
Asked for specifics of why he felt Trump’s prosecution was improper, McGraw cited the fact that the former president’s one-time attorney, Michael Cohen, was allowed to testify.
The jury “heard some things that were very prejudicial, that had nothing to do with solving the problem of the case at hand.”
He added: “I think you don’t have someone that is considered to be an accomplice in a crime that has pled out or made a non-prosecution agreement and allow that information into the jury’s awareness because it’s very prejudicial and is not really probative of anything that they’re asked to be problem-solving.”
CNN host Abby Phillip pointed out to McGraw that Cohen wasn’t charged with the same crimes as Trump, noting that it’s not “uncommon at all for people who are accomplices to crimes, people who have taken plea deals, non-prosecution — that is not uncommon at all for those people to then testify in subsequent trials for their alleged co-conspirators.”
“That’s kind of how a lot of these prosecutions work.”
McGraw tried to counter.
“Well, really give me examples of where that has been considered appropriate.”
So Philip did exactly that, reminding McGraw that the same thing happens all the time in organized crime prosecutions.
“It happens in mob cases all the time.”
Why is McGraw rushing to Trump’s defense? Well, it probably has something to do with the fact that the “doctor” has a net worth of $460 million and wants another tax cut from the failed former head of state.
Whine all you want, Doc, but it won’t change the fact that Trump broke the law, got caught, and was found guilty by a jury of his peers. If that bothers you and the other MAGA faithful, planes are departing the United States every hour. Maybe Russia would be more to your liking.
