Dr. Phil accuses Judge Merchan, prosecutors in Trump trial of 'banana republic tactics'

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Dr. Phil, who started his career as a courtroom consultant, criticized the handling of the criminal trial against former President Trump over hush money payments as smacking 'of banana republic tactics' by the prosecution and New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan.

This Feb. 21, 2020, photo shows talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw speaking during a ceremony awarding him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. **FILE**Dr. Phil, who started his career as a courtroom consultant, criticized the handling of the criminal trial against former President Trump over hush money payments as smacking “of banana republic tactics” by the prosecution and New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan.

“I’m trying to figure out how trying to cover something up that was not illegal, makes it illegal?” said Dr. Phil on his podcast “Phil in the Blanks.” “They just ran all over these standards in this case, and if they can do that to a former president of the United States and that is allowed to stand, what happens to the average citizen?” Dr. Phil said. “Isn’t this jeopardizing all of us?”Phil McGraw founded Courtroom Sciences Inc., a consulting firm that offered lawyers advice on how to present their cases based on his psychology background, in 1990 before he made it big with his television show, “Dr. Phil.

His former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 not to talk to the press about the affair, which Mr. Trump denies having. The money was logged in company records as legal expenses.

 

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