The jury selection in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan trial raises questions about whether a conviction would come based on the evidence or the jurors would make their choice based on other issues, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Sunday on Newsmax.
He added that allowing lawyers, as well as some of the others who were picked, "shows you how difficult picking this jury was. "The altered business records happened in 2017 after the president was already elected," said Whitaker. "It just falls apart. We could go through so many other examples of how weak this case is both on the law and the facts."
Further, the case hinges on testimony from witnesses like Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney who spent time in prison, and adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose former attorney Michael Avenatti has offered to discredit if he's allowed to testify.
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